I think the development of…

I think the development of the points system is and effective fair way of distributing tags. How ever I am concerned about reducing number the rifle tags available and replacing them with archery tags. My concern is I believe there to be many mortally wounded moose that are not tagged as a result of the archery hunt. After many years spent in the forest during hunting season I have spoken to numerous hunter who had shot at but not claimed moose after following blood trails for days with a Archery equipment. These hunter then with tag still in hand proceeded to continue to hunt until they had successfully tagged an animal. I was also concerned to see the way no mention of the unregulated hunt by indigenous Peoples or the spraying of glyphosphate by forestry industry in the new moose management plan as i believe these to have a far greater impact on our moose populations. Over all I think the proposed changes are positive but would like to see a system where the tags allocated based on the number of moose and allow the hunter to choose his method of choice rifle bow or muzzle loader. Rather than assuming they can hand out tags the population cannot support assuming that the success rate of archery hunter is less when in fact I believe that on many occasions multiple animals are being inadvertently harvested on archery tags