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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dean nelson" data-source="post: 107365" data-attributes="member: 1305">If it was just ND that saw a shift in population that idea might have some merit but it's not just here that the population has dropped. alas where did the MN moose go or any of the other states and provences moose go because they sure not here. MB's population has been cut nearly in half and I'm pretty sure 20,000 moose didn't just decid to go for a walk on the praires. The fact is there is a huge die off happening in most all the moose range in the midwest as well as Southern canada. The area from bismarck going north and west into southern canada is one of the few places that is bucking that trend. In the end the moose are not walking off to new ground they are dieing and so far there's no one smoking gun to point at and say this is the problem.   I don't want them to go on the list in any way shape or form but also can't deny that there is a whole lot of evidence to push the usfw in that direction. If they had a concrete answer as to why the die off is happening we would have a shot of staying clear of this but with everyone working on best guess it's going to be very hard to argue the other side of this thing. I've known about the die off for years now but was unaware how bad it's getting to our north as well until today and with canada getting bad that bodes very poorly for us on fighting the peta crew on this. Hell the listing of them had never even crossed my mind till I saw it in the papper yesterday. I laughed at the idea that I was sure had come from some left wing bunny hugger (which it did)....well that is right up till i started pouring over the numbers for the listed areas and did the proverbial Ruh Roh this ain't good! The only reason I have any hope at all of keeping them off the list is in how the usfw pretty much gave the bunny huggers the finger on the whole Sage Grouse thing two years ago. In the end the trend is not good at all and this push might grow legs and get some real traction I'm afraid. Be weird if the trend keeps up and the future generations will come to think of moose as open prairie animals sort of like how we think of elk being mountain animals instead of the prairie animal they used to be.</blockquote>

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