Moose Droppings

Tomorrow is the start of the Maine Moose Season

September 22, 2006

Two-week, split moose hunting season about to start
By The Associated Press, wire report AUGUSTA— Maine on Monday becomes the first northern New England state to launch its 2006 moose-hunting season, as more than 2,800 permit holders take to the woods in search of a trophy.The first six-day portion of the split season gets under way at dawn Monday in northern and eastern parts of the state. The second week runs from Oct. 9-14, in the northern two-thirds of the state. Biologists estimate Maine’s moose population at 29,000.

Maine’s moose hunt predates the seasons in the other northern New England states. New Hampshire’s runs Oct. 21-29. Vermont, like Maine, has a split season, which runs Oct. 21-26 and Oct. 28-Nov. 2.

In Maine, hunters will search for trophies in designated wildlife management districts covering more than 21,000 square miles.

It looks like the weather maybe ok for the opening day.

 

Biologist Karen Morris of the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department said moose are in prime physical shape this time of the year, just as they begin their mating season.

While foliage is still dense in the woods across the state, that disadvantage to hunters will be more than outweighed by the willingness of moose to respond to moose calls, game officials said. The National Weather Service predicted cloudy weather with a chance of rain, and high temperatures in the 50s, when the season starts Monday.

 

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A couple of my friends who helped me last year with my moose hunt will be out hunting a bull in zone 3. I wish them and everyone else good luck.