Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Biologists are not seeing a proliferation of Moose in the Adirondack Park in New York State...........Without Wolves present, many thought that the Moose would proliferate rapidly..........Warming temps keeping the Moose in check?

State biologist Ed Reed says moose population boom hasn't happened yet

Aerial surveys don't show great increase in numbers

nydailynews.com
A 12-hour-old moose calf is groomed by its mother, Monday, May 24, 2004, as it wobbles while standing in the front yard of a residence, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Anchorage Daily News, Jim Lavrakas)

JIM LAVRAKAS/AP

Biologist spotted seven moose in aerial surveys.

RAY BROOK, N.Y.— A biologist with the state Department of Environmental Conservation says the Adirondack moose population explosion just hasn't happened yet.

Biologists haven't seen a great increase in moose numbers since they started doing aerial surveys in 2007, Ed Reed from the DEC told the Adirondack Daily Enterprise.

There were two aerial surveys this winter concentrating on a 77-square-mile area just south of Upper Chateaugay Lake, which Reed said has probably the highest moose density in the state.
Biologists spotted seven moose.

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