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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Moose
Message-ID: <1487@vax2.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 13:33:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 22 13:33:52 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 24-Oct-84 03:57:23 EDT
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Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA
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Well, when I was young, my folks & I lived in backwoods (I mean BACKWOODS)
Maine... Dad works for the Fish & Wildlife dept.  He never hunted Moose, as
it is not very good to eat.  The hunters who came up from the south
(anything is south of Moosehead Lake, Maine) often hunted Moose because 1)
They made big trophies to hang on walls and 2) any idiot could shoot one,
normally (they are sometimes skittish, but I could tell you some Moose/car
stories!).

However, the F&G dept. was pleased with the hunting season they had in Maine
about a year or two back, basically due to Moose overpopulation... they have
no natural enemies these days, so they just breed, and they had been
charging cars and one had even killed a person in a car/Moose accident
(hardly the Moose's fault, s/he was just crossing the street).  I can't see
Moose hunting as much sport, but if it's done only during the season, it IS
helping to preserve the Moose (Mooses?); I understand that the food supply
was getting scarce with overpopulation, and a lot of dead, starved Moose(s)
is not only sad for the animal, but can lead to all sorts of Moose diseases.

  BULLWINKLE: "You just leave that to my pal.  He's the brains of the outfit."
  GENERAL:    "What does that make YOU?"
  BULLWINKLE: "What else?  An executive..."

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
					John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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