“We knew right away this was something that should not be airside. A moose is certainly something we don’t want to have walk in front of an aircraft, Rea said in a press release. (But) moose populations in this area are down 70 per cent and we’d rather like to see that animal survive and breed instead of being turned into hamburger. Rea quickly reached out to airport operations manager Trevor Gust, and they started working on a plan to safely move the moose along. Rea and Gust believed the moose likely got into the airport grounds through a gate that was left open in a storage compound. Once it was inside the fence, it found a section of forest within the fence line and settled in.