I don�t know about the areas you hunt moose at, but I hunt on GMU 20B (the remainder of 20B by the Elliott Highway near Washington Creek). All over this area we ride ATV�s back and forth to our hunting spots, at which places we stay all day. Then return to our campsites when too dark to see.
Anyway, aircraft of all kinds fly over this area all day and night long, which may be a reason why ATV�s don�t seem to bother moose at all. But a big problem most of us �bull moose hunters� is as follows:
Before the early 2000�s (2005 or so) we had plenty of bulls and the hunt success rate was quite good. There were around 30 or more hunters out there each season. We had lots of wolves, and bears too. We could sit at our campsite and make a few bull grunts, and we could hear bulls answering our calls all around. Back then we had to choose which bull to kill, or which shot to pass.
Then F&G allowed for the killing of cows, and a few years later we started spending most of the season looking for a bull to hunt. Last year it took four of us to finally kill a bull on the 20th, the last day of the season, and this year we only saw any bulls out in the valleys below, way out of reach. No moose for us this year. Meanwhile, a hunter killed a bull by the trailhead, and the tree cows we saw this year were killed by cow hunters in the same area.
c. Black bears are still around (we saw one), but unlike a few years ago there were no wolves around, the bulls have disappeared, and the killing of cows continue.
