{"id":521712,"date":"2026-03-08T03:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521712\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T03:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:07:12","slug":"snowmobilers-dig-exhausted-young-moose-out-of-the-snow-in-new-hampshire-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521712\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowmobilers Dig Exhausted Young Moose Out of the snow in New Hampshire Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-230617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Moose-rescued-from-snowbank-Courtesy-of-Jim-Wuellenweber-and-Bianca-Johnson-Dion-via-Youtube-1024x54.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"373\"  \/>Courtesy of Jim Wuellenweber and Bianca Johnson Dion (via Youtube)<\/p>\n<p>A group of snowmobilers in New Hampshire saved a young moose doe who needed a helping hoof.<\/p>\n<p>Returning home for lunch after a morning zipping over the drifts 4 to 5 feet deep, Mike Dion told WMUR news that he and his friends came across an unexpected sight: a moose buried up to its neck in snow.<\/p>\n<p>It was clearly in trouble. All they could see was its snout and the tuft of its mane above its panicked eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone looks at their cellphone, no service,\u201d Dion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/snowmobilers-rescue-moose-new-hampshire-021826\/70411084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t call Fish and Game, because that was our first thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, if we don\u2019t do nothing,\u201d Dion remembers thinking, \u201cthe moose probably isn\u2019t going to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Approaching cautiously, they found that the animal was exhausted, but calm. It had clearly been attempting to free itself without success, and Dion and his friends weren\u2019t even sure if its hooves were on solid ground or not.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly they began to dig the moose out, needing about 20 minutes on their hands and knees to do so.<\/p>\n<p>SNOWBOUND RESCUES: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually, we got her up and got her going, and she seemed to be all in good health,\u201d Dion said. \u201cI think she was happy. She wasn\u2019t aggressive or too nasty with us. That\u2019s what we were worried about at first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After \u2018she\u2019 was freed, the snowmobilers stuck around 10 minutes or so to make certain she was steady before they returned home.<\/p>\n<p>A Fish and Game Department official told WMUR that moose are dangerous animals when cornered, spooked, or provoked. The best course of action, she recommended, if you were to find yourself in the same situation is to call the department.<\/p>\n<p>The story is reminiscent of a story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/alaskans-worked-an-hour-and-a-half-to-free-a-moose-stuck-under-the-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GNN covered in 2024<\/a>, where snowmobilers in Anchorage dug out a moose that was trapped, but who needed \u201chours\u201d to free the beast as it had fallen\u2014and then frozen\u2014into the ice of a frozen creek.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH the story below from WMUR News\u2026<\/p>\n<p>SHARE This Passing Kindness Shown To A Moose In Need\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy of Jim Wuellenweber and Bianca Johnson Dion (via Youtube) A group of snowmobilers in New Hampshire saved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2837,49,48,2629,36527,66,323,8864],"class_list":{"0":"post-521712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-new-hampshire","12":"tag-rescue-stories","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-wildlife","15":"tag-winter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}