Moose Layoff Killing Mainers in 2008!

The Maine Moose is the Most Dangerous Animal in Maine!

Besides being well known and infamous for the tasty Maine Lobstah, Maine has two other significant and world-wide distinctions:

1. We have more then 29,000 moose in the state; more than any other lower 48 state;
2. We have one of the largest single herd migrations in the world -- well larger than the annual caribou or wilder beast migrations -- more than 7,000,000 mass migration of 'outta statahs" occur every year swelling our normal in state population from ~1,000,000 to more than 8,000,000 humans. See Maine Moose-Auto collision Map

Well, good news this year -- Maine Moose failed to fatally nail a single Maine or outta state driver in 2008. In years past, Maine Moose killed dozens of Maine drivers. 1997 was the last year we all escaped without a fatal suicide death hit. For us humans anyway! It has been an average auto-moose death by suicide with about 700 moose dying at the hands/wheel of drivers. Almost 3,000 were successfully hunted keeping our Maine Moose population at a nature-healthy level and with minimal winter starvation.

However, the Maine deer was more successful in their annual suicide season. Unfortunately, they got one of us drivers this year! But their population and the fall hunting count is severely lower due to the heavy snow last year.

While the Maine auto-deer collisions might be higher the the auto-moose numbers, the latter usually has a greater fatality rate for humans.

Please be careful around the Most Dangerous Maine Animal!

Good Night From Maine, USA!