Moose could play a big role in global warming
why? Because Moose in Norway eat sapling trees. So after the area is clear cut for timber, the regrowth of the forest doesn't happen because the moose eat the saplings.
and so the saplings don't grow up to be trees, which bind up carbon dioxide.
but the moose eat mostly hardwood type trees, so the pine etc. can grow, which of course helps the forest industry (one can almost hear the autistic high school drop out cry HOW DARE YOU).
so maybe that part about binding up carbon dioxide is wrong, because it ignores that maybe pine also bind up Carbon.
So they changed the subject: instead we will condemn the moose for harming biodiversity.
so what is the plan?
"We don't only regulate the amount of animals, we very carefully regulate the proportion of females, males and calves. So there's a stronger management for moose than for most livestock in Norway," he said. That means it should be possible to find the right balance between moose numbers and how forested lands are managed.
translation: KILL THE MOOSE.
Sorry Bullwinkle.
Bullwinkle of course is an American moose, and one wonders about the forest land of northern Minnesota or Maine, where moose still exist in the wild.
While one hears about the Amazon forest being cut down, one does not hear about another story: the reforestation of NE USA. As (poorly productive) farms were abandoned during the depression in the NE USA , they have now gone back to forest. Indeed, when hiking, one often finds apple trees, chimneys, and other evidence that it was once farmland.
So now the Moose are finding more areas to thrive. I remember years ago when I worked in a remote Pennyslvania town, and we had tourists for two reasons: One, a lax divorce law(long story) and two: Moose gazing visitors because the moose had moved back south into these forested areas.
I should explain to Non Yanks: the original Bullwinkle J Moose was a TV character:
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