Bad Moose News

[Doc]

It looks like we lost one of our resident NYS moose. Cause: brain worm leading to heat stroke. The moose keeled over in a back yard of a Dannemora (Clinton County) home. I have heard that brain worm was one of the bad things about whitetails and moose cohabitating in the same area. I hope this isn't something that will be expanding through the moose population. I don't know whether that sort of thing can happen or not.

Doc

[solon]

that's a bummer - moose are beautifull to see in the woods. I've been to newfoundland, canada twice moose hunting, they have moose like we have rabbits

[Doc]

I love the enormous power of a moose and the size. I too have been on a successful bowhunt , and understand the perfect big game aspects of moose hunting. Yes, I realize that I will never see a NYS moose hunting season in my lifetime, but it is not completely out of the question for those that come after me, assuming that there are no diseases involved in holding the population back.

Doc

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Not sure if it was an old wives tale or not....and I have no back  up and can't remember where I heard this. I was told once that the initial moose wipe out in NYS was from this same brain worm....Deerp population came up and contact was more frequent. I thought it was transfered from the fecies of the deer

[Doc]

I'll have to see if I can find out more on that. I know I have heard that there is a relationship between brainworm in moose and the presence of deer.

Doc

[SteveMcD]

That really stinks. Just when the moose population in the North Country is growing; and hoping we have a Moose lottery hunt at some point in the not too distant future. This is not good news.