We used 16 years of survey data for a moose population, and 3 Landsat satellite scenes, 19 years, to evaluate the hypotheses that Ontario's Moose Habitat Guidelines for timber harvest: (1) the effects of unmodified clearcuts on moose populations, and (2) create enhanced habitat with greater interspersion of forage with cover and higher habitat suitability indices than areas dominated by unmodified clearcuts. The 5 study landscapes compared were 16,000-91,000 ha, and included landscape disturbance timber-management and wildfire-burn, and landscapes with and without hunter access. Moose density differed among landscapes, but while neither main effects of hunter access (P = 0.083), nor landscape disturbance (P = 0.31) were significant, their interactions were (P = 0.003), with density increasing if disturbance occurs without hunter access. The habitat suitability index in the wildfire burn was similar (0.80) to modified and unmodified clearcut (0.85 and 0.83), and population rate of increase was positive in burn (B = 0.153, P < 0.0001) and the unmodified clearcut (B = 0.127, P < 0.0001). The population increase in the modified clearcut (B = -0.016, P = 0.9907) because hunter access increased as a consequence of high road density.