Why would they stabilize the population well below the capacity? That is a proven way to allow the forage to outgrow its usefulness for moose...
Reduce hunting pressure on bulls? Hunters in the field are going to do about as much to bulls as antlerless... Maintaining a bull:cow ratio that is badly skewed is more than a little condescending.
Maintain intensive harvest goals??? Like opening an EMERGENCY hunt for bulls in 13 because there were too many moose?!?!? Gaseous colloids into a ticklish orifice comes to mind.
Reduce moose vehicle interaction... Well why not just kill them all if that is how you determine carrying capacity of a given area?
If the population is still way below carrying capacity the last reason does not apply...
Well, that would be how I would respond to the reasons based on the areas where they are giving out cow tags...
One thing to bear in mind, is that you can't hold a sub-population at total carry capacity in a northern ecosystem. Another thing to keep in mind, is the productivity of a sub-population based on its composition and, the subsequent behavioral characteristics of a specie based on composition of cohorts within the population. What that all means is, that in a northern ecosystem it's better to manage below carry capacity and to distribute a healthy equilibrium among cohorts in order to have healthy productivity.
