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Wonderful Rifle and Bowhunting for Caribou, Moose and Black Bear. Thousands of Sq. Miles of spectacular scenery in East Central Labrador Comfortable Lodge, lovely people

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(Alces alces), largest member of the deer family, Cervidae (order Artiodactyla). The name moose is common in North America; the same animal is generally called elk in Europe. Moose are heavy, long-legged, short-necked ruminants, standing 1.5-2 m (5-6.5 feet) tall at the shoulder and weighing to approximately 820 kg (1,800 pounds). The back slopes downward to the hips, the tail is short, and the muzzle is somewhat inflated and pendulous. A fleshy dewlap (the bell) hangs from the throat. The brown coat is coarse and shaggy, becoming grizzled with age. The enormous antlers in the males (bulls) are characteristically palmate with projecting tines (see photograph). As in other members of the deer family, the antlers are shed and regrown annually. As they develop they are covered with a protective skin, called velvet, which is later rubbed off. (See also deer.)
Moose inhabit the northern parts of North America and Eurasia. They prefer being near water and often wade into forest-edged lakes and streams to feed on submerged aquatic plants. They also eat a variety of grasses, herbs, and bark. Usually solitary, moose in North America often assemble in small bands in winter and tramp the snow firm in a small area to form a "moose yard." Their normal gait is a stiff-legged, shuffling walk that enables them to cover ground with surprising speed. They sometimes trot but seldom run. Moose are usually shy, but they tend to be unpredictable and belligerent. During the breeding season, in autumn, the males will fight fiercely for mates. One to three ungainly young are born after gestation of about eight months. The female cares for the calf until the birth of another is imminent.
Moose generally are hunted both for trophies-their huge antlers and head-as well as for their flesh, which is beeflike but somewhat dry and with strong-tasting fat. The pressure of unrestricted hunting substantially reduced the numbers of moose and virtually eliminated them from the southern parts of their range, especially in the United States. They are now generally protected by law, both in North America and in Europe, and hunting is closely controlled.
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You will probably find more pictures of moose in more different situations and poses here than anywhere else on the web! Have fun! (Some folks at a university e-mailed me thinking I hate moose from what they saw here. Nope. I like the beasts, just not through my windshield!
Hopefully what you will learn here will help you keep one out of yours. Hopefully the pictures of moose killed by contact with vehicles will motivate you to do everything in your power to avoid an accident involving one. Then tour the rest of the site to see more of the Great North Woods. Ok folks! I finally have what you've been waiting for!
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This part of our website is about the danger Moose have for humans. Our goal her is to keep you alive as long as we can by reducing the chance that you or other humans will be injured or die in a collision with a moose. Another goal is to keep these magnificent beasts from being killed with no positive result as in a collision with a vehicle.
The best chance of seeing a moose is to go north on Route3 to Pittsburgh or over to Berlin and north on Route 16 towards Maine. Both of these areas are sort of "moose alleys" and there's about a 90 percent or better chance of seeing one there. Since the area is full of them, you might chance upon one anywhere though.
We've seen a few on Route3 North of Lancaster, a few years ago had one in our back yard, in the middle of town. Last year a big bull moose passed through our lower driveway. Another one trounced through one of our flower beds last month (June 1997). Fortunately it missed all the flowers. Be watchful at night on Route3 by Weeks State Park for deer. Moose have been becoming a real problem in northern New England. They have an amazing ability to find themselves in front of cars in the middle of the road. Full grown they weigh upwards of 800 to 1000 pounds. (A moose charged a locomotive head on in Crawford Notch a few years back, and derailed the train. The moose staggered off before it died.) Our local barber has a picture of one standing on the hood of a car occupied by a somewhat surprised elderly lady.
When you visit our area, please drive carefully. Be on the watch after dark for any change in the shades of the shadows beside and in the road. Watch for beady, yellow eyes way up in the air. If you see one standing there, don't walk up to it. They might just stand quietly, and let you pet them, or they might rear up on their hind legs, and come crashing down on you with their front hooves. They may be big and dumb, but they can be very fast.
When moved up here my wife expressed a desire to see a moose. At the time my employment caused me to drive a great deal and I encountered more of the things than I wanted to. In fact the first night on the road I had to swerve to miss three of them on route 110 in Stark. Later that night there was a big bull moose in the middle of route 16 at the south end of Pinkham Notch. I stopped the car, and wondered what to do. Didn't want to beep the horn as it might make the thing mad and cause it to charge. I looked around the car. There was an old broom in the back, so I plucked it out, got out, and cautiously approached Bullwinkle. Gave it a good whack on the rear end. It didn't even flinch. Another whack. Still nothing. Went back to the car. Figured dogs don't like newspapers, maybe moose don't either. Rolled up the Boston Globe. (At least it's good for something). I don't know if it was all the hot air in the Globe or what, but when I struck the behind of the moose, he took off like a shot! For the rest of the fall almost every night I found him on the same curve. I'd pull out a paper, slam the side of the car with it, and he'd take off.
My wife wanting to see a moose. Several years went by and still no moose for her. Then one afternoon we went for a ride up the Nash Stream road. While on a side road that really wasn't meant for a Ford LTD II, a ball joint broke. We got a ride back to town, bought a new ball joint and headed back to replace it. I was putting it back together at about dusk with the wife sitting in the other car. Suddenly she yelled, "you'd better get in the car!" I was at one of those points in a project where looking up or doing anything else but continuing isn't much of an option. She yelled again. I just cussed a little under my breath and kept working. Then I began to feel the hot, humid breath on my back. I very slowly turned just my head so I could just see what was there out of the corner of my eye. It was one of the larger moose I've seen with a huge rack seeing what the humans were doing. After a few moments it decided to check out the other car. While it was slobbering over the window my wife was sitting behind, I carefully got in the Ford. A few minutes later it went on down the road. As it was getting dark, we decided to return the following day to finish the job. It took about another 15 minutes to go about a mile as the moose wouldn't get out of the road, but kept moving along from a slow walk to a fast trot for the next mile or so. The wife was happy, sort of anyway. She hadn't really wanted that close a view of a moose, but at least this had been a fine one to see. However, be careful. Look at these pictures of what happens when you are not. The following pictures are of a moose that went through a car's windshield this month near South River, Ontario. The VERY lucky woman driver ended up with just a broken wrist and needing a good bath.

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