Wyoming moose herds declining, but why?

and haven't seen one single freakin' moose yet. Been here all week...nada.

Well if you look around you'll see more than a few of recently built millionaire log mansions sporting a fashionable rack of Moose Antlers over the entry. And they aint made of plastic. Must be big business for a few poachers. The rack is probably wort more than the trouble of packing out the carcass. The bears and wolves do the clean up in another day or two.

Maybe people are taking them home to Greeley. HAHAHAHAHA Just Kidding!!!!

Grizzlys being intorduced to the park should not account for reduced moose population. Unless very hungry, bears normally won't go after moose. They get most protein from fish. Wolves on the other hand will hunt moose.

AKA wrote:

Grizzlys being intorduced to the park should not account for reduced moose population. Unless very hungry, bears normally won't go after moose. They get most protein from fish. Wolves on the other hand will hunt moose.

I am not sure the diet of a moose, but could they be competing over food sources? Berries are scarce this year but I am sure bears eat more than fish & berries. I don't know why the bear is listed as threat to the moose along with the wolf, but I thought I would enquire. Moose are very solitary and territorial, maybe they are having problems finding territory? I'm not sure, was hoping you or someone could shed some light here.

Yellowstone and the Tetons are a couple of the most beautiful places on the globe! Do what you can to keep it that way.

Moose seem to adapt and move around alot to avoid humans---soon they may be no where to roam!

Horny Wyoming cowboys. The male moose don't have a chance, with all those goat ropers with their britches down around their ankles.

Ben Rectanus wrote:

Horny Wyoming cowboys. The male moose don't have a chance, with all those goat ropers with their britches down around their ankles.

Gad - I LOVE the way you think even as twisted as it is.....

dont forget the "blind stagers" moose are prone to this desise. if I remember right its a parasite that eats there brains?

Last winter I watched a girl run 7 dogs off their leashes up Cache Creek and and two moose came running by me like I wasn't there. God it was cold that night.

This computer says I'm from Asheville but I'm not. Go Mac.

I would not want to be the one collecting moose droppings to analyze if they are pregnant.

Answer to the declining moose and everything else?! two words: OVER HUNTING!!!!!!!!!!

How did they miss this opportunity to blame Global Warming? Maybe because it's May and still snowing?

steward 1 wrote:

Answer to the declining moose and everything else?! two words: OVER HUNTING!!!!!!!!!!

Overpopulation of humans.