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Moose on move: Roving Ogden beasts are relocated to Colorado

Eugene | 6:46 a.m. Jan. 15, 2009

So you've exported 20 Utah game animals to Colorado. Are you saying that Utah doesn't have any back woods areas that could use a bolstering of the moose population?

What is Colorado giving you in return? 20 big horn sheep? 20 elk? 20 what?

If nothing is the answer, then you've lost a valuable natural resource for nothing.

J DUB | 7:35 a.m. Jan. 15, 2009

Eugene, you got the part about the moose SURPLUS right? The region is over-crowded. It's not a loss of a "valuable natural resource" if the animals have become a burden - endangering themselves and humans by wandering into the city. Utah has a way healthy moose population and Colorado has a need.

Even if there wasn't an immediate trade, it's a good faith effort with Colorado which is likely to be reciprocated at some point. If Utah doesn't have any immediate needs, they will at some point.

Sounds like a win/win to me.

0802 | 7:56 a.m. Jan. 15, 2009

Here's a cheaper solution. Increase the number of moose tags!

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Fred | 8:26 a.m. Jan. 15, 2009

I agree with 0802. A lot of these hunts for Moose are once in a lifetime, and they're giving Moose away for free?? Make some money on some extra Moose tags!!

David | 9:05 a.m. Jan. 15, 2009

An interesting part of the story that wasn't mentionied is that they introduced the moose in the flat tops wilderness area in NW Colorado - where no moose have ever lived before. This comes on the heels of several successful moose introductions in other areas around western CO. It sounds like a win win situation for UT and CO.

Mitch | 9:16 a.m. Jan. 15, 2009

Moose on move: Roving Ogden beast are relocated to Colorado

Guys, watch out for the type! Funny thing is, on the original article you can see the typo, but when you go to type a comment the heading changes.

Deth | 9:35 a.m. Jan. 15, 2009

If you look through all of those pictures I kinda get the feeling of an alien abduction.

awh | 10:36 a.m. Jan. 15, 2009

Some folks didn't read all of the article before complaining. Colorado is "paying" for the moose.

Good for Utah and good for Colorado.

Yrag Notyalc | 2:41 p.m. Jan. 15, 2009

One could argue poor management on the part of both States, or say that this is part of a good management effort. Too bad "the wilds" have to be determined by geographic boundaries and their critters be made a political controversy. Everybody just seems to either want to make a nickle....or argue about who should have the right to kill 'em!

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A netted moose hangs from a helicopter near Ogden this past week as Division of Wildlife Resour-ces personnel prepare to move the animal to Colorado. About 20 of the animals were relocated.__Clint Brunson releases a blindfolded moose from a net. Moose are plucked from foothills by helicopter.__Wildlife personnel from Utah and Colorado, including Bill deVergie, area wildlife manager for Colorado's Division of Wildlife Resources, center (in cowboy hat), lug a moose across the snow to a staging area before the beast's relocation to Colorado. Moose roaming the city of Ogden can be a problem for area homeowners, so errant animals were rounded up.__A moose waits in a trailer to be moved from the mountains near Ogden to Colorado.__A moose is given a quick medical checkup and a new monitoring band. __DWR employees, above, hold down a moose so a biopsy can be obtained for testing, left. The relocation process is made as quick and painless as possible for the moose.__

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