Success rate up in Minnesota moose hunt
October 19, 2011 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Minnesota moose hunters killed 54 moose in the state’s annual hunt, which ended Sunday. A total of 94 parties took part in the two-week hunt in Northeastern Minnesota, yielding a success rate of 58 percent, the highest in several years, said Tom Rusch, Department of Natural Resources area wildlife manager at Tower.
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What is wrong with the biologists in this state? Or is the moose hunt driven by nothing but greed? Bloodlines are bloodlines, regardless of moose or horses. Any horse breeder knows that you select the best to breed – the strongest and most attractive physical specimens – in order to strengthen the bloodlines. You also want to maintain a large gene pool to select from or you develop problems from inbreeding. When it comes to moose, Minnesota continues to increase the numbers killed, simultaneously decreasing the gene pool available. Hunters are also killing the best of the breed – the best physical specimens are being removed from the gene pool – in the process the breed is losing animals that have possibly learned to cope with global warming or other stresses. Instead of killing animals that are genetically adapting we should be protecting them by ending the hunt. If the moose didn’t have enough problems surviving in Minnesota, they have to contend with DNR policy.
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Another sound DNR policy decision. The number of moose in the state is on the decline, no reason as of yet but the DNR still holds a hunt. Is this rational thinking or just good old greed for the almighty dollar. I cant really think of anything the DNR has actually managed properly.
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