DCHP-1 Online
moose pasture 
1 Slang worthless or unproven mining claims.
See also: moose-yard (def. 2)
- 1896 (1964) . . . some miners, led on by a Mr. Whipple, started in to stake Eldorado branch, up to that time "Reserved as a moose pasture," as a wag put it. . . .
- 1909 (1962) "Moose pasture!" sneered Kink Mitchell. But Bill gravely paced off five hundred feet up the creek and blazed the corner-stakes.
- 1962 When prospecting lagged and the bottom fell out of the "moose-pasture" market, Ernie took a semi-skilled job with a local mining company. . . .
2 North terrain having little value except for browsing moose.
- 1965 The timberland is interspersed with . . . willow-and-aldergrown "moose pasture."
- 1896 (1964) . . . some miners, led on by a Mr. Whipple, started in to stake Eldorado branch, up to that time "Reserved as a moose pasture," as a wag put it. . . .