While there isn’t an official number of tags that have been allocated yet, the word on the street is that it will likely max out at around three. Despite that low number of tags, over 70,000 hunters will have a shot at getting their hands on one, and more importantly, trying their hand at bagging a moose in Nevada.
If you find yourself like many that are drawing a blank as to how anyone might be thinking about hunting moose in Nevada, you aren’t alone. In fact, it’s brand new to the Silver State.
After the state’s Department of Wildlife confirmed that they did, in fact, have a breeding population of Shiras moose, the talks of a hunting season followed close behind. Sure, there were some groans from the animal rights crowd, but sustainable science reigned supreme as officials pointed out that the population’s demographics needed some help.
With more bulls than cows in many of the inhabited areas, state biologists worry that big bulls would negatively affect cows, particularly during the rut. With hopes of hampering this, we all remain hopeful that three lucky hunters will put one on the ground this fall.
In addition to the obvious benefit of balanced ecosystems, these types of tags result in thousands of dollars worth of application fees which can be put right back into the state’s natural resources.
