British Columbia paid $73,000 to First Nation for moose-enhancement program

British Columbia paid $73,000 to a First Nation for a moose-enhancement program that included rounding up 14 wild horses to sell for meat at auction, reports the Vancouver Sun. The money was also used to train members how to trap wolves, to conduct a survey of moose kills by Native hunters, and to decommission logging roads. The Tl’etinqox First Nation at Alexis Creek said the moose-enhancement program ran from October 2012 to March 2013. They said the wild horse capture was required because the horses compete for the same grazing as moose, though research in the area say there is little competition for forage, reads the newspaper.