Maine Game Warden Jonathan Parker, who was recently
featured on Animal Planet's North Woods Law, never expected this to happen. Here's the incredibly awesome story he shared on Facebook. Enjoy! :)
"Well it wasn't how I envisioned my vacation day," explained Jonathan Parker, "and I'm sure it's not how the team envisioned their Saturday away from their families, but wanna Thank Dave who had been fishing that evening when he spotted this cow moose in deep mud on the side of a stream." Parker continues, "With daylight disappearing fast I reach out to Retired Game Warden Jim Fahey who was very knowledgeable about the stream and access." "I also reached out to Maine's Moose Biologist Lee Kantar. As the storm front moved in over night and daylight awoke us Saturday morning. The rain commenced to fall as a Team came together." "The Team was made up of one biologist, a good friend of his, a Marine Patrol Officer, a Retired Game Warden and myself. As we freighted the boats that morning we didn't know fully what we were getting ourselves into until we plunged off the bows of our boats into waist deep mud." "One goal," said Parker, "one mission - to attempt to help this cow moose who had been held down for hours by the life strangling gribs of the streams muddy banks." "Minutes seemed like hours," He continued, "but the team never stopped working until the moose was free of the muds grasp." One very tired, but surely relieved, moose! |