Keeping moose is difficult because of their specialised diet and because they contract some diseases easily, but they become very tame when raised by hand and have been used for riding in a few instances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose#Domestication
Domestication
Domestication of moose was investigated in the Soviet Union before World War II. Early experiments were inconclusive, but with the creation of a moose farm at Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve in 1949, a small-scale moose domestication program was started, involving attempts at selective breeding of animals on the basis of their behavioural characteristics. Since 1963, the program has continued at Kostroma Moose Farm, which had a herd of 33 tame moose as of 2003. Although at this stage the farm is not expected to be a profit-making enterprise, it obtains some income from the sale of moose milk and from visiting tourist groups. Its main value, however, is seen in the opportunities it offers for the research in the physiology and behavior of the moose, as well as in the insights it provides into the general principles of animal domestication.
In Sweden, there was a debate in the late 18th century about the national value of using the moose as a domestic animal. Among other things, the moose was proposed to be used in postal distribution, and there was a suggestion to develop a moose-mounted cavalry. Such proposals remained unimplemented, mainly because the extensive hunting for moose that was deregulated in the 1790s nearly drove it to extinction. While there have been documented cases of individual moose being used for riding and/or pulling carts and sleds, Björklöf concludes no wide-scale usage has occurred outside fairy tales.[190]
mainly because the extensive hunting for moose that was deregulated in the 1790s nearly drove it to extinction
I'm glad Colorado makes this a lifetime license. You can apply for exactly one moose hunt. Whether you bag one or not, they'll never give you another. With elk and deer there is a need to intensively manage the herds, but moose are such rare and noble things to see- truly the least horny animal- that their depopulation in the Rockies would be tragic.
Keeping moose is difficult because of their specialised diet and because they contract some diseases easily, but they become very tame when raised by hand and have been used for riding in a few instances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose#Domestication
Domestication
Domestication of moose was investigated in the Soviet Union before World War II. Early experiments were inconclusive, but with the creation of a moose farm at Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve in 1949, a small-scale moose domestication program was started, involving attempts at selective breeding of animals on the basis of their behavioural characteristics. Since 1963, the program has continued at Kostroma Moose Farm, which had a herd of 33 tame moose as of 2003. Although at this stage the farm is not expected to be a profit-making enterprise, it obtains some income from the sale of moose milk and from visiting tourist groups. Its main value, however, is seen in the opportunities it offers for the research in the physiology and behavior of the moose, as well as in the insights it provides into the general principles of animal domestication.
In Sweden, there was a debate in the late 18th century about the national value of using the moose as a domestic animal. Among other things, the moose was proposed to be used in postal distribution, and there was a suggestion to develop a moose-mounted cavalry. Such proposals remained unimplemented, mainly because the extensive hunting for moose that was deregulated in the 1790s nearly drove it to extinction. While there have been documented cases of individual moose being used for riding and/or pulling carts and sleds, Björklöf concludes no wide-scale usage has occurred outside fairy tales.[190]
I'm glad Colorado makes this a lifetime license. You can apply for exactly one moose hunt. Whether you bag one or not, they'll never give you another. With elk and deer there is a need to intensively manage the herds, but moose are such rare and noble things to see- truly the least horny animal- that their depopulation in the Rockies would be tragic.