400 Moose now call New York's Adirondack Mountains home.........Part of the fauna matrix found in New York State at the point of European colonization(circa AD1500), Moose, like Caribou were extirpated and fully gone from these parts by the Civil War (forest to farrmland conversion destroying ungulate habitat).........As populations in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont rebounded, Moose began recolonizing the Adirondacks in 1980............. "As this Winter of 2017-18 got under way, Adirondack's Moose population appeared to be in good physical condition with many calves seen accompanying females each year."..........While farther south than their cousins in northern New England, Adirondack Moose thus far are less stressed by ticks and parasites-- 23% mortality due to winter tick and other parasite debilitation.........Auto Collisions account for a stunning 55% of all Moose deaths in NY State..............While Black Bears and Eastern Coyotes will opportunistically kill Moose Calves(calves have no odor and Bears and Coyotes literally only those they stumble over),.............. "Trent University biologists in 2013 documented four definitive cases of eastern coyotes and (or) eastern coyote × eastern wolf hybrids killing moose ≥1.5 years old"............ "Predation by coyotes and coyote × wolf hybrids probably does not represent a threat to moose population viability in central Ontario(and/or the Adirondacks)"

view video of Adirondack moose by clicking on this link:

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The Adirondack Park was created in 1892 by the State of New York amid concerns for the water and timber resources of the region. Today the Park is the largest publicly protected area in the contiguous United States, greater in size than Yellowstone, Everglades, Glacier, and Grand Canyon National Park combined.

Moose in the Adirondacks:

 Incredible aerial video, photos

 Feb. 19, 2018

The state Department of Environmental Conservation in February 2018 posted several photos of moose in the Adirondacks as part of a multi-year aerial project. (Photo: Department of Environmental Conservation)

ALBANY - Do you know the Adirondacks has a healthy

 and growing moose population?

The state Department of Environmental Conservation

 has been conducting an aerial research project since

 2015 to track and study the movement of moose in

 the Adirondack Mountains.

The goal is to develop a moose-management plan

 for New York and boost their survival. The DEC

 estimates New York has about 400 moose, mainly

 living in the Adirondacks.

Photo: Department of Environmental

 Conservation

The DEC this month released new photos and a 

video of moose stomping through the snow-covered

 forest and encouraged those who visit the region to

 report any sightings.

"Aerial surveys are conducted only during the winter

 months with the use of helicopters," the DEC said.

"The moose tend to be clustered in areas with

 abundant food resources, and they are easy to

 spot from the air when there are no leaves on

 the hardwood trees and they are silhouetted 

against the snow."

Moose don't live forever.  How do they die in NY?

A summary of 100 known mortalities of moose, recorded between 2000 and 2014, is given at left.  These mortalities were "opportunistically" detected, typically animals found dead along roads or acting strangely in and around centers of human activity (which ultimately led to their death).

These data are useful for disease surveillance in that they identify sources of mortality in a populations -- such as brain worm (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis), starvation, and hyperthermia

The DEC started the project three years ago with

 the SUNY College of Environmental Science

 and Forestry and Cornell University's 

Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit.

The multi-year project is aimed at obtaining 

information on the status of New York's moose

 population, their health and the factors that

 affect their survival and reproductive rate.

The effort has included trying to capture the 

moose and fit them with GPS collars. The 

DEC did so with 12 moose three years ago; 

nine in 2016 and five more last year.

With the GPS system, the moose can be

 remotely tracked, and it can also help 

determine whether they are producing 

calves or having health problems.

"Researchers also have tracked collared 

moose to understand their diet selection 

and have been sampling vegetation 

across the Adirondack Park to assess 

the quantity and quality of available food 

sources," the DEC said.

While most of the New York moose are found

 in the Adirondack region, some have been

 found south in the Albany area, including in

 Rensselaer and Columbia counties.

In 2015, one bull moose was captured in 

Rensselaer County after it was

 believed to have swum across the Hudson

 River.

The DEC encourages people to provide

 any information about moose sightings 

by filling out a form on the DEC's website.