It' s alot better than the moose getting hit by a car and going off somewhere to die slowly and in pain. I don' t know the circumstances but unless they were actually causing a lot of property damage (cars, houses, businesses, running over people) they could have just hearded them up. Here in Colorado in some of the mountain cities there are elk that run through the streets all the time and are considerd tourists attractions. People will come from all over the country to go to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park just to see the ammount of elk there.