Hunters Took 605 Moose in Vermont’s 2008 Hunting
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December 23, 2008
Waterbury, VT – Vermont moose hunters had a
successful October hunting season according to the Vermont Fish &
Wildlife Department.
“A tally of results shows hunters took 605 moose with 1,251 hunting
permits issued for this year’s split season,” said Cedric Alexander,
the wildlife biologist who chairs Vermont’s moose management team.
“The overall success rate for the season was 48 percent.”
“Most importantly,” Alexander added, “Vermont’s moose population is
being managed scientifically, according to a management plan based
on sound wildlife biology and a carefully regulated hunting season.”
Moose numbers have increased above carrying capacity in the
Northeast Kingdom, where the population is being reduced due to
overbrowsing of vegetation and reduced body weights of moose.
Twelve bull moose weighed more than 800 pounds. The heaviest bull
weighed 926 pounds and was shot in Granby by Nicholas Ott of Sutton.
This was Vermont’s sixteenth moose hunting season in modern times,
the first occurring in 1993 when 30 permits were issued and 25 moose
were taken by hunters.
The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department reports that 11,032 residents
and 2,807 nonresidents entered Vermont’s moose permit lottery in
2008. Vermont’s pre-hunt moose population was estimated at
4,000-5,000 with moose found almost statewide. |
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