Mooses [was Re: [Sca-cooks] Regretable foods.... OOP]

[johnna holloway]

AAA Michigan released a figure yesterday of 65,000
whitetail deer-auto collisions in Michigan last year.
8 people killed. We were in a F250 Ford when we were
driving through Alaska which might have withstood
a moose-truck collision. We actually never saw them on
the roads. My brother-in-law (who hunts) says that they
are getting ready to reintroduce elk to Illinois...
he's predicting serious auto-elk wrecks.
Johnna Holloway


> On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, johnna holloway wrote:
> > Actually probably the folks who live in Alaska can
> > occasionally get moose lips. There are lots of signs
> > posted on the road between Palmer and Wasilla as to
> > what the annual moose-auto collision number is up to..
> > Moose would make really large roadkill or maybe it's
> > the vehicles that get killed.
> > Johnnae llyn Lewis
> > Johnna Holloway
>"Pixel, Goddess and Queen" wrotein reply:
> Moose are native as far south as Minnesota and Wisconsin. Moose are
> large. Moose are very very large. Even small moose are large. ;-)
> Cars don't always survive encounters with whitetail deer, and very few of
> them run above 200 lb. Mooses can weigh up to 1400, and be 8 feet high at
> the shoulder.snipped.............
>> Fun moose facts:> http://www.angelfire.com/ky2/forestfriends/moose.html
> A friend of mine originally from An Tir tells a story in which he'd been
> stopped at a wayside somewhere in An Tir or possibly Oertha and watched a
> very curious bull moose *roll* a small car from one end of the parking lot
> to the other. Apparently he liked the color or something.
> Margaret, who is really bored this morning and thus looking up mooses