19YO Dies In Fatal Moose Encounter

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  Howard_Martinson on May 14 at 11:43 a.m.

  Unspeakable tragedy. My sympathy to the family.

  I can’t help but wonder if the moose involved was one of the two at Riverstone Park on Monday evening that the Fish & Game Department evidently decided to do nothing about. I thought F & G would relocate those animals, silly me, apparently that didn’t happen.

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  Arch_Druid on May 14 at 11:48 a.m.

  I saw this on the news last night after I got off work. That really was too bad. I didn’t know however that we had moose that close to the area.

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  lewis8457 on May 14 at 11:57 a.m.

  what a waste of a young life and a honor roll student too. my heart goes out to her family.

  In the caption of this thread it said only one fatality actually there was two. The moose counts as one.

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  Whippersnapper on May 14 at 11:48 p.m.

  I think Mr. Martinson is implying that every moose seen in or near town should be transplanted. This is very dangerous for a moose, who must be carefully tranquilized, taken down, packed for travel, loaded in a trailer and driven a couple hours away. A moose can die during any one of these procedures and it takes several trained people to do it right, and the animal may still die from stress. To assume that Fish and Game will rush out and perform this dangerous task upon each sighting is naive. They don’t have the manpower and a significant number of animals would die in the process.
  The young woman’s death is a great tragedy, but it’s a stretch to say that Fish and Game could have prevented it by intervening at some point.
  I drive that same stretch on many days and only today noticed the “Animal Crossing” sign a literal stone’s throw from the scene of the accident.

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