Show Moose Country Extends From Maine to Alaska Alaska- Like Deer Sheds His Antlers King of the deer family Is the moose A full grown moose weighs as much as a big horse and is so homely that hes he's majestic It is an everlasting mystery how a moose goes at high speed through thick brush carrying that enormous rack of horns homs The gait of a moose is either a trot or a smooth lope that is much faster than it looks to tobe tobe tobe be writes Ding Darling In the Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington Star Like all the deer the male moose sheds its antlers and renews renews them every year In many respects the moose is as queer as he looks For one thing its range has hns remained practically unchanged since the first white man landed although its members have been greatly diminished in all aU regions regions re re- re- re gions glons and is no longer native to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and Pennsylvania The moose country runs from Maine westward and north to Alaska into Montana Idaho parts of Arizona New Mexico Mexico Mexico Mex Mex- ico Texas and into Mexico It n is impossible for moose to be happy away from water They spend most of their time in the summer feeding on mosses and aquatic plants In winter the moose feeds on browse and spruce at thaLA that thaL A very interesting experiment with moose Is going on in Michigan About 20 years ag ago moose came from Cam Canada da and settled on Isle Royale in Lake Superior where there never had been any before No hunting was permitted and after a few years the moose got so plentiful plentiful plentiful plen plen- that they ate up all the winter feed within reach and began to starve to death by the score So the state of Michigan for three winters has been trapping moose on the Island and taking them across to the mainland and releasing them In in what looks to be perfect moose country About 60 moose have been liberated |