"Eventually!"
When Gatehouse said if you injured your leg you just wait and a moose will walk by you, I'm sure glad he added the word, "eventually."
Unless there are a whale of a lot more moose now, than there were before the logging roads and logging covered so much of the north, your wait time may be measured in years! There are (were) large areas of northern BC with very few moose in them. In the Atlin, area of the far north in BC, I have seen as many as six big bulls in only hours, while on the ground hunting caribou. But in vast areas, say west of Fort Ware, all those miles of green, probably mature, forest, had very few moose in them. In the winter time, when it is so easy to see moose from the air, it was common to fly a hundred miles, at an altitude where moose are easily seen, and not see a single moose!
Moose will go quite long distances to get to their winter ranges. I have flown biologists on official moose counts, where we purposely flew over their winter ranges to count them, and on the average, we counted just about 100 moose, for each hour flown. Actually, they were thicker than that over their wintering areas, because I counted air time from takeoff to landing. So, on a trip time of 3 hours we would count about 290 something moose, on average. Just think of all those areas of bush with no moose in them, because they were congrugated on their chosen wintering grounds.
All the old timers in the bush couldn't have been wrong, and they all agreed on the same thing; there are far more squirrels, grouse, ptarmigan and rabbits in the bush than there are moose and caribou.
When Gatehouse said if you injured your leg you just wait and a moose will walk by you, I'm sure glad he added the word, "eventually."
Unless there are a whale of a lot more moose now, than there were before the logging roads and logging covered so much of the north, your wait time may be measured in years! There are (were) large areas of northern BC with very few moose in them. In the Atlin, area of the far north in BC, I have seen as many as six big bulls in only hours, while on the ground hunting caribou. But in vast areas, say west of Fort Ware, all those miles of green, probably mature, forest, had very few moose in them. In the winter time, when it is so easy to see moose from the air, it was common to fly a hundred miles, at an altitude where moose are easily seen, and not see a single moose!
Moose will go quite long distances to get to their winter ranges. I have flown biologists on official moose counts, where we purposely flew over their winter ranges to count them, and on the average, we counted just about 100 moose, for each hour flown. Actually, they were thicker than that over their wintering areas, because I counted air time from takeoff to landing. So, on a trip time of 3 hours we would count about 290 something moose, on average. Just think of all those areas of bush with no moose in them, because they were congrugated on their chosen wintering grounds.
All the old timers in the bush couldn't have been wrong, and they all agreed on the same thing; there are far more squirrels, grouse, ptarmigan and rabbits in the bush than there are moose and caribou.
