April 11, 2021 - 6:00 PM In the last 10 to 15 years, moose populations across B.C. have declined between 50 to 70% and researchers are finding wolves are the leading cause of death in both female adult moose and calf populations in the Interior. Chris Procter, senior biologist with the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, Fish and Wildlife, gave a presentation on Interior moose populations through a B.C. Wildlife Federation Zoom conference April 1. During the presentation, he said declining populations overlap with habitat changes due to intense forest development associated with pine beetle timber salvage. The study areas of Interior moose populations include Bonaparte Plateau north of Kamloops, Big Creek southwest of Williams Lake, Prince George south, Entiako Provincial Park and northwest of Prince George.
Mysteries abound in moose country, particularly in the Monte hills between Monte Lake and Kamloops.
After moose hunting in the area for the past 25 years, Otto Duczak was baffled by mysterious events of the past two seasons.
The first curiosity was a mature bull moose shorn of its antlers, apparently one of several, or so the rumour went. The theory was that this was a government conservation technique to protect mature bull moose from hunters. I called the ministry because I had my scope on one of those moose, Duczak said. He didn t pull the trigger because, without antlers, it appeared to be a cow moose.
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