Big Game Damage can be an issue for some farmers.

Moose can cause significant damage to fence lines, hay stacks and some late standing crops.

Rob Tether is a wildlife biologist with Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Environment:

“The moose population for the last thirty years has been gradually increasing in the farmland region of the province. Since probably 2012-2013 due to the whole hunting seasons, were actually seeing that that population is stabilizing.”

Tether explains where most moose can be found.

“Probably in the farmland where you will find more moose is actually in the Aspen parkland that ban that sort of runs down through Lloydminster down through Swift Current and over to Estevan. That would probably have the higher number of moose in the farmland and then in the actual Boreal Forest of course is still where the majority of moose are located.”

Tether says with it being the end of rutting season Moose are travelling more adding that in the South there’s no real place for them to hide when they come out to feed.

This year across the province they issued just under 6000 hunting license allocations for Moose, out of that 4200 were issued on farmland areas.