North American Moose Research Articles

North American Moose Transplantations and Handling Techniques

Reports have been made of some of the transplants: in Michigan (Hickie, 1943) and in Wyoming (Grasse, 1950), and to New Zealand from western Canada (Donne, 1924). The transplants from Alberta to Nova Scotia, from the Quebec mainland to Anticosti Island, and from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to Newfoundland, have gone unrecorded, or have been given passing mention in accounts that dealt mainly with other topics (Newsom, 1937; Pimlott, 1953). Trapping operations, for tagging purposes, are being conducted in British Columbia and have recently been reported by Ritcey and Edwards (1956). The objectives of this paper are threefold: to present in detail the techniques used in trapping and transporting moose from Newfoundland to Labrador; to assemble, and to review briefly, other moose transplants that originat d in North America; and to discuss th high mortality that has occurred in some of the trapping and transplanting operations.

North American Moose, by Randolph L. Peterson [Review

North American Moose, by Randolph L. Peterson [Review

North American Moose

North American Moose

North American Moose

This reviewer's qualifications for writing about a book on North American moose are limited. Nevertheless, having watched tourists equipped with cameras in Yellowstone National Park circle closely and brazenly around two magnificent bulls in the velvet, and having observed the moose in more natural situations feeding in the lakes of Canada's wilderness, I find the book so satisfactory in filling a need for information about these great deer that I am constrained to ignore my limitations. Dr. Peterson has succeeded in packing into this modest-sized work most of the published information on the North American moose. In addition he has added a great deal of fresh information gathered by himself and co-workers from Canada's ideal moose habitats. Indeed, much pertinent information on the moose from European workers is included by way of comparison and supplement. After a brief introduction to set the stage by citing the chief contributors of information...

North American Moose

North American Moose

North American Moose. By Randolph L. Peterson. University of Toronto Press, 1955. $12.50.

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North American Moose, by Randolph L. Peterson

North American Moose, by Randolph L. Peterson