Raising Moose in Alaska (Metlakatla: rent, lease, work)

[brokencrayola]

stiffnecked, what an amazing photo. Thank bull is massive, amazing. Did you raise him as a calf?

We have a cow and calf hanging around here because the snow is so deep this year so they are trying to stay on the plowed roads. I love these animals BUT respect them. Years ago I saw a video of a cow and yearling calf in some small town back east. Children had been chasing, throwing rocks and tormenting this thing and her calf. She was running through the streets frightened and trying to get away. This person was just filming her since it was unusual to see a moose in town. This moose ran to a corner where there was a man just standing there minding his own business and in a flash knocked him over and right there on the video stomped him to death with her front legs in less than a minute. I have never forgotten that and now know what these animals can do. I would never ever consider even approaching a moose on a horse nevertheless trying to lasso it or anything else.

[Rance]

I have no idea where this was taken. But it seems you can train them to pull things. The bar/restraunt in Mentasta has some great pictures of moose pulling a sleigh and I think one that is saddled.

[bongo]

Well this is a great idea for Fur Rondy! Since this year they are adding the running-of-the-reindeer, next year they can add a moose lassoing round up. Hmmmmm... might save the Rondy. Rondy-rendezvous-come on!

[Cursing]

Well at least in Russia they have been able to farm moose. I found a nice site with some nice pic's Russia, Moose: Photo stories by Bryan & Cherry Alexander Photography, Arctic and Antarctic picture specialists.
It just shows if your are not close minded you can achieve almost anything.
Its just too bad that you find a lot of people full of personal bias and don't see beyond their own fears and incapability's or lack of experience to have a open mind and try something new. So they revert to insults and rude comments.
Moose can even be used for transportation if you are worried about global warming and paying high fuel bills.

[Metlakatla]

Uh, yeah, excuse my lack of experience with moose....lol.

You're the funniest lower 48 troll we've been blessed with in anywhile. I'm looking forward to what you come up with next

[User 2]

Originally Posted by Cursing

Well at least in Russia they have been able to farm moose.

Perhaps your ''open mindedness'' would do you some good if you moved to Russia, eh?

As far as you citing the cultural basis regulations, you didn't look far enough into the regulations to notice the definition of 'take'. The reg you cited does not apply to what you're proposing.

It's not closed mindedness that dictates the inability to be granted a permit for farming game animals in Alaska.

Alaska has an open mind when it comes to promulgating regulations which would prohibit a narrow minded and short-sighted endeavor to endanger what's in the best interests of all Alaskans.

Thanks, anyway, cursing.... ...but Alaskans have enough sense to prohibit many practices that may be condoned elsewhere.

If it's some attribute of some other place that you admire, don't be surprised that those here may not share your admiration for how things are done somewhere else. We don't live somewhere else, ..we live here. If you like how things are done somewhere else, why aren't you trying to move there?

Despite what you might think, you're not the first to think farming game animals would be a good idea. The idea has been addressed before and found to be not in the best interests of all Alaskans or the game population in Alaska.

If there wasn't a certain amount of closemindedness coming from your own position, perhaps you'd research the negative aspects which explain just why farming game animals is a bad idea.

An inability, or refusal on your part to acknowledge the downside risks of your proposal do not bode well for someone else to take your position seriously.

Our state history is riddled with failed experiments promulgated by those who ignore long term downside risks to their proposed endeavors.

Farming game animals, just like farming salmon, is a proposal which will face fierce opposition. The downside risks have been weighed, and it's been found that it's not worth endangering the sustainability of native game to allow some few individuals to attempt to profit from a proposed endeavor that might cause the loss of viable game populations.

It's a matter where what's in the best interest of the common good, trumps what may profit some few individuals.

That tenet may not be revered in Russia, but this isn't Russia.

I suggest you take your proposal somewhere where sanity, or the tenet of common interests may not prevail.

Perhaps somewhere like that you won't find cause to denegrate those who demonstrate some degree of sanity, or those who recognize that interests in common should always trump the interests of a few.
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[verberus]

Are frozen moose-steaks not a courting-gift Metl? And are you not known to have demonstrated your susceptibility to them in the not-too-distant past?

In which case this thread may well be part of an elaborate ploy romantically to ensnare you. You may need to call upon your 40 men to defend your honour aginst this southern interloper..... the rope may well be intended for you!

Hey User 2 - season's greetings from a passer by

[Metlakatla]

You just may be onto something here, verberus. Good heavens, the hordes get more creative all the time. But I doubt that personally I'm the prey. I think he's just looking to heighten his chances in a general sense. by giving himself an edge.

Think of the possibilities...another chapter may be in order...do you think so, Passer-by?

Cowboy Cursing stated morosely around the interior of his cabin outside of Nowhere, Alaska.

"Ain't no womens for miles and miles" he snarled to himself. "Might as well go slog some beer", and with that, he snatched his ushanka from the chair and lumbered out to his pickup truck and drove the few miles to the local bar.

[Rance]

Actually I think it's embarassing to see a moose bridled or otherwise shackled to man made machinery. And I'm sure they find it humiliating.

[stiffnecked]

Moose don't mind being shackled, saddled and pulling a plowing during hunting season.
The could be a great rehabilitation project for the guys down at Spring Creek....