Regarding the March 3, 2012 article News-Herald article, Minnesota moose population continues downward fall, I believe it is important to add this.
Despite suggestions from the public that wolves or hunters are to blame, Lenarz said his research shows those factors definitely aren’t driving the downward trend. “When we started the project in 2002, our first mortality was a wolf kill, and we assumed we’d see that on 90 percent of our mortalities,’’ he said. “But we didn’t.’’
Of the 119 collared moose that died, just 11 were confirmed to be from wolf predation.
“We found most carcasses intact; they hadn’t been touched by wolves,’’ he said.
Rodger Ringham
Clara Lake
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