Kind of cool seeing this here

[fly2cast]

Saw this young moose right by the rifle range south of Bismarck. I can't believe how common it is getting to be to see moose this far south in North Dakota.

 

[dean nelson]

Here is one a couple miles north of the Hazelton boat ramp a couple years ago. Saw her damn near daily for awhile there. I would love to see their population explode in the bottoms and the huff hills like what happened when they found the river up by Williston.

 

[ndlongshot]

Looks alone and skinny. Hope it can put on some pounds soon.

 

[Sum1]

I’m pretty sure there is a breeding population in the riverdale bottoms.

 

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Saw two beside the highway south of Jamestown a couple weeks ago. Generally see one or in the bottoms beteeen Bismarck and hazelton ramp when i fly my plane low over there. They tend to hang around this two wooded island on the east side.

 

[Rowdie]

There were even more when the water was way way way down in the mid 2000's. There were actually mamas with their young hanging around in the Mo valley around Yates. Even Mobridge, had a cow calf on the big flat that is named "moose flats" Not because it usually has moose, but the Moose lodge is right above it.

 

[tikkalover]

Been seeing quite a few north and east of Minot. For a small RESTITUTION FEE, I might be able to help some of you buttheads out that were lucky enough to get a tag in M9 and M10. ;:;popcorn

 

[Apres]

I take the boat down the mo river to hunt the river bottoms for pheasant n of hazelton and have seen the large tracks the last 4 years down there. Haven't actually got to see one yet but I know they're there. one of these days I am going to get permission to hike up the nearby hill that overlooks the valley and try to spot one

 

[Petras]

We saw 2 of them a couple weeks ago just east of Berthold. There was also what looked like a dead cow elk in the north ditch about 4 miles east of Berthold.

 

[sl1000794]

Different critter, but still neat - there must have been 40 bison grazing at roadside off US 191 about 5 miles north of West Yellowstone when we drove thru Friday afternoon. Wifey took pics as we drove by.

 

[LBrandt]

Different dritter, but still neat - there must have been 40 bison grazing at roadside off US 191 about 5 miles north of West Yellowstone when we drove thru Friday afternoon. Wifey took pics as we drove by. .

Don't look to shaggy, must be too early to loose their winter coat. Nice pic and thanks for sharing.

 

[Lycanthrope]

found a pretty nice moose shed down near the RR south of bismarck a few years ago...

 

[pointer]

We bumped two cows during deer season twice about a week apart got to within 10 feet of them both times this was quite a way from Oahe and about 10 miles north of the SD border

 

[dean nelson]

I take the boat down the mo river to hunt the river bottoms for pheasant n of hazelton and have seen the large tracks the last 4 years down there. Haven't actually got to see one yet but I know they're there. one of these days I am going to get permission to hike up the nearby hill that overlooks the valley and try to spot one

Most of the ridge right above the bottoms are corp ground and there are several easy to get to overlooks from the Hazelton ramp up to the glenco church. I'm normally there checking on ducks but if there are moose out there it wouldn't be hard to spot them out in the marsh.

 

[Chas'n Tail]

Kinda crazy how they are becoming so much more common further south all the time, yet up in the Turtle Mountains they're all but scarce. I'd be hard pressed to see one a summer in the hills now. At the same time however, elk are becoming increasingly common in the TM region. Makes me wonder why now? Why the shift suddenly when things have been the way they have been for what I can only assume to be the last 100 years at least. Introduction of the elk from the Canadian side really pushing the moose out? Cuz sure there are elk out there, but i don't know about THAT many.... who knows.

 

[guywhofishes]

ticks?

 

[riverview]

I still think some of the moose from the Red river valley and western mn migrated to western nd.

 

[dean nelson]

Kinda crazy how they are becoming so much more common further south all the time, yet up in the Turtle Mountains they're all but scarce. I'd be hard pressed to see one a summer in the hills now. At the same time however, elk are becoming increasingly common in the TM region. Makes me wonder why now? Why the shift suddenly when things have been the way they have been for what I can only assume to be the last 100 years at least. Introduction of the elk from the Canadian side really pushing the moose out? Cuz sure there are elk out there, but i don't know about THAT many.... who knows.

The biggest reason why they're expanding in the west but dying in the East is a brain worm. As you move south and west the transmission of the brain worms from whitetails to the Moose drops off pretty fast. Add in winter ticks going nuts during our warmer winters and you got the recipe for a population collapse. And that is why the US fish and wildlife service is contemplating placing the Canadian Moose on the endangered species list.

 

[NodakBuckeye]

Need brain worms for wolves

 

[Velva_zv21]

The boy and I had a moose sighting today while walking through the woods.... lol, along with 6 wood ticks on him and 3 on me