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Minnesota Moose Hunt Suspended...
Last Post 12 Feb 2013 06:00 PM by Mark_D. 2 Replies.
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07 Feb 2013 02:17 PM �
Pretty much indefinitely...


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Minnesota DNR to release results of moose survey

This is the last pic of a Moose that I picked up on my tcams. I find it interesting how the date of the last pic corresponds with the date that the Moose population really started to take dive.

Though I did see Moose tracks this ML season in the area that we Grouse hunt.
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08 Feb 2013 08:22 AM �
It was three years ago that I got a moose picture on a trail cam. It is sad to think about this decline. I am glad I went to Manitoba in 2007 and got a nice one. Sure hope they figure this out and can turn it around.
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12 Feb 2013 06:00 PM �
I decided to dig deep and find some facts concerning moose populations in MN.  I was looking for a moose census year by year but did not find a nice spreadsheet with that information.  I did mind this publication, http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/fish_w...osefaq.pdf

Here is the summary

No real data for years prior to the logging and forest fires of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Year(s)   Number of moose

1923     3000

1948 to 1970  5000-8000  Period of Global cooling.  Scientist were thinking that a new ice age was coming.

1996  8400 in NE MN  1436 in NW MN.  1998 was the peak of the current global warming trend.

2013   2,760 within a range of 2,120-3,580.

If any of you remember the winter of 95/96 NE MN received over 12 feet of snow.  That is deep for even a moose!  If the issue was global warming the peak of the population should have been 1990-94.  The second growth forest is between 80-100 years old now.  It could be a factor.  Disease could be stressing out the moose.  Tick populations have been at an all time high around here.  Maybe the moose migrated north?

  My not fully informed opinion is, that it is not just one factor but several combining.

-MD
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