First Day of Fall

A park site pic

The Aspy valley in Northern Cape Breton in a few weeks.

I was at this spot in the spring, a few years ago. It would be good to be there now.

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There are some good moose up there. This is one from this month. Forty years ago budworm set back the fir and birch exploded. The moose​ population exploded​ with it. ​Moose are adapted to forest pulse ecology caused by fires, etc. ​The moose were expirated in the 1800’s and reintroduced in the late forties into the park from Alberta. They kept a low profile until the veg​etation reset and quickly developed one of the highest quality herds in the ​Canada, in the 1990’s. The moose ate the browse off and it is rare to see birch or big bulls anymore. We shed hunted up there for 30 years and big sheds were common then declined in the last 20 years with the food quality. The one in the pic is the best I have seen in a while.  
I had a license once and saw a bull like this a couple of days before the season. ​Alas, no moose for me, though.

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