Numerous moose sightings surprise Minnesota researchersFrom the
Boundary Waters, where moose are common, to northwestern
Minnesota, where they were thought to be nearly extinct,
Minnesotans are reporting more moose sightings than researchers
expected. By: John Myers, Duluth News Tribune From the Boundary
Waters, where moose are common, to northwestern Minnesota, where
they were thought to be nearly extinct, Minnesotans are
reporting more moose sightings than researchers expected. More
than 500 moose have been reported, and more than 440 locations
mapped — backed up by more than 200 photographs — in the 11
months since the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Natural
Resources Research Institute asked the public to report moose
sightings. Not only are we seeing more moose, we’re seeing them
in areas outside the traditional moose range, said Ron Moen, a
wildlife researcher with the NRRI. “If we can get this many
reports in just 11 months, in so many places we really didn’t
expect people to see many moose, we probab