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dubzi_ART t1_izhrmxp wrote

This means we’re Canada now right?

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burmerd t1_izhv5ir wrote

Still need(edit: nationalized) healthcare. But now that we have a hockey team, a riot might help.

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hockey_stick t1_izhyq6m wrote

This is just the vanguard of the invasion force. The gaggles of canucks wielding mini sticks have yet to arrive at the hotels.

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Snushine t1_izi4y9s wrote

So the geese were just reconnaissance?

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hockey_stick t1_izkq37e wrote

The answers below you are all wrong. They're the Canadian Air Force.

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WashingtonPass OP t1_izhoy9s wrote

https://www.king5.com/article/life/animals/first-recorded-moose-sighting-mount-rainier-national-park/281-b0f5ea04-a05d-4760-bff4-fd0e4e762c00

This is where the photo I posted came from, and has more details. A moose was recorded crossing I90 at Snoqualmie Pass in August, possibly the same one?

https://conservationnw.org/our-work/habitat/i-90/

Here is more detail and some history about the wildlife crossings.

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IllustriousComplex6 t1_izhvayp wrote

This is so cool! When's the last time we had a moose in this part of the state?

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flipfreakingheck t1_izhw7ku wrote

We get moose all the time in the Spokane area. They’re mean.

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mrlunes t1_izjen3c wrote

Can confirm. I hear many stories of people getting charged by moose, especially around MT. spokane

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jorwyn t1_izm3nuk wrote

I remember being late to work once because there was a moose on the state line bridge. Sent a photo to my boss to explain why I wouldn't be on time.

I had no idea they weren't as common at Rainer as over here.

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sverre054 t1_izin6ei wrote

Moose historically wre never very prevelent in WA outside the Selkirk and Blue mountains. The population has been steadily growing and expanding since the 50s, including moose moving into the North Cascades.

I remember about 10 years ago, my friend went solo deer hunting for the first time outside Winthrop. A game warden talked to him as he was driving out fur the and asked if he saw anything. He said no buck, but I saw a huge moose walk by. The game warden said there weren't any moose in the area, and he must be mistaken, until he saw the photo my friend took, and "well holy shit, you just shut me the hell up"

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Nullclast t1_izk1lea wrote

They're all over in far eastern Washington not sure about central

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JGfromtheNW t1_j07sdi5 wrote

We had one female start showing up in the Wenatchee valley probably at least 4-5 years ago. IIRC in 2020 there was a male who was tranq'd in East Wenatchee and released near Lake Wenatchee, and then two females were seen together hanging at the Lowe's in Wenatchee (very close to the river front).

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Seems like they're becoming more and more prevalent here.

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pvfjr t1_izk55ce wrote

I took some pics of one in the North Cascades this summer at Cutthroat Lake. Rangers were fairly surprised it had come down that far.

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SoftwarePatient5050 t1_izif226 wrote

A møøse once bit my sister...

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BiiiigSteppy t1_izipjbd wrote

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

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SeaPhile206 t1_izjrcm7 wrote

You’ve been sacked

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BiiiigSteppy t1_iznplo7 wrote

I am an ex-commenter. I have ceased to be.

Off to climb the twin peaks of Mt. Kilimanjaro!

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Jamesspade2 t1_iziy2h9 wrote

I used to haul corn from George to Chehalis and would go.through Yakima and naches down highway 12.

Buddy and I almost wrecked because 6-8 moose were crossing the road in between Packwood and Randle.

This was 2010. No one believed me. But I know what I saw. Absolutely beautiful creatures.

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Livy1013 t1_izjm9sr wrote

Probably was Mule deer. Moose never roam or live in herds. They live solo unless it's time to mate

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wpnw t1_izjqrfz wrote

Elk more likely, they're much closer to Moose in size and there are lots of them around Packwood.

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Livy1013 t1_izkcr7v wrote

True since elk are larger but I have seen quite a few dark brown mule deer that made me do a double take.

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atoughram t1_izhuvpx wrote

Bullwinkle is lost???

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Sonnuvah t1_izigk0f wrote

"MOOSEN!! I saw a flock of moosen! There were many of 'em. Many much moosen. Out in the woods—in the woodes—in the woodsen. The meese wantin' the food. Food is to eatenesen!"

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rtp_oak t1_izjopjj wrote

Where is that guy on here trying to see a moose with his wife before they move to Boston?

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exum23 t1_izj5tma wrote

I’ve seen moose in the blue mountains a few times

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adenninlove t1_izjlnju wrote

..am i the only one who thought that was something else? i thought it was just another day in australia with a big spider casually walking home..

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KennyHarm420 t1_izk3z0r wrote

As an easy sider it's crazy that moose aren't on the west side, we don't have a ton over here but it not uncommon too see one or a group of them

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Collie_Mom t1_izl8t2s wrote

Hope his has a couple girl friends. 🥰

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TopRevenue2 t1_izjc4xf wrote

A moose walks into a park and we can all celebrate! But mountain goats in the Olympics need to be exterminated, mostly killed and few exiled to the Cascades.

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Crackertron t1_izjsmon wrote

Those goats are invasive. Were you unaware?

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TopRevenue2 t1_izjtg53 wrote

I am aware that Native Americans reported seeing goats in the Olympics before white people arrived.

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newt_girl t1_izjy4i5 wrote

Source?

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TopRevenue2 t1_izk35fz wrote

Evidence that mountain goats are a native species includes the following facts:

An early report by John Dunn, published in 1844, stated that "The natives [of the area] manufacture some of their blankets from the wool of the wild goat; which is done with great neatness."

John Fannin and George Bird Grinnell reported in the February 13, 1890 edition of Forest and Stream in an article entitled "Range of the White Goat" that mountain goats were "abundant on the Olympian Range mountains."

A press expedition reported, in the July 16, 1890 edition of the Seattle Press, the sighting of a lone goat in the Olympic mountains.

Another expedition (reported in the April 1896 National Geographic) claimed that mountain goats were present.

In the July 18, 1917 edition of the Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Albert B. Reagan, Ph.D. (an ethnologist), reported identifying bones of mountain goats in the area. Most, but not all, of the goat bones had been formed into spoons.

These reports--all written before the release of a few goats in the 1920's--are substantial evidence that mountain goats are native to the ONP and an important part of the local ecology.

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newt_girl t1_izlbae0 wrote

Thanks for that info. I guess I've got some weekend reading to do!

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