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He was credited with the discovery of a moose subspecies in Yellowstone National Park, which was named Alces alces shirasi, Shiras's Moose. [4] In 1935, Shiras published Hunting Wild Life with Camera and Flashlight: a Record of Sixty Five years' Visits to the Woods and Waters of North America, a two-volume set of over 960 of his wildlife ...
Sanders County is a "destination hunting locale" with trophy specimens of White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus), Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus), Rocky Mountain Elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni), Shiras Moose (Alces alces Shirasi), Mountain Goat(Oreamnos americanus), and Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis Canadensis) rounding out huntable ...
The Wenaha–Tucannon Wilderness is home to a variety of wildlife, including Shiras moose, [4] Rocky Mountain elk, bighorn sheep, whitetail and mule deer, black bear, cougar, grey wolf, [5] coyote, snowshoe hare, rattlesnake, and pine marten. Both the Tucannon and Wenaha Rivers provide spawning habitat for Chinook salmon and steelhead trout. [1 ...
A bull elk grazes in Gibbon Meadows in the west-central portion of the park. An elk grazes with a bison in the park. There are at least 67 species of mammals known to live within Yellowstone National Park, a 2,219,791 acres (898,318 ha) [1] protected area in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.
Mammals of this ecoregion include elk (Cervus canadensis), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), plains bison (Bison bison bison), Shiras moose (Alces alces shirasi), cougar (Puma concolor), grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), northwestern wolf (Canis lupus occidentalis), black bear (Ursus americanus cinnamomum), bobcat (Lynx rufus) and Canada lynx (Lynx ...
Alaska moose are hunted for food and sport every year during fall and winter. People use both firearms and bows to hunt moose. [10] It is estimated that at least 7,000 moose are killed annually, mostly by residents who eat the moose meat. [10] They are also hunted by animal predators: wolves, black bears, and brown bears all hunt moose. [10]
Alces is a genus of artiodactyl mammals, that includes the largest species of the deer family. [1] There are two species in genus: the moose (Alces alces) and the fossil Alces gallicus (also known as the Gallic moose), that existed in the Pleistocene about 2 million years ago.
George Shiras III (1859–1942), U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania; Leif Shiras (born 1959), American tennis player and journalist; Oliver Perry Shiras (1833–1916), first United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa; Wilmar H. Shiras (1908–1990), American science fiction ...