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Moose survey shows population steady


Northeastern Minnesota's moose population remains similar to last year's at about 7,600 animals, according to a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources news release. The DNR conducts an aerial survey each year during winter months to estimate the moose population.

Despite the similar numbers, other factors suggest that the population is continuing to decline.

"The raw survey numbers were similar," Mark Lenarz, the Minnesota
DNR wildlife researcher overseeing
moose research said in a prepared statement. "But a historically low calf survival rate, a steadily
declining hunter-success ratio, and a higher than normal non-hunting
mortality rate all continue to suggest a downward trend in the moose
population."

Minnesota's 2008 non-hunting mortality moose rate was 17 percent, down
3 percent from the 20 percent average rate reported during the past
seven years, according to the news release. Elsewhere in North America, between 8 and 12 percent of
moose generally die from causes other than hunting.

Moose remain abundant enough in the state to support a bulls-only hunt
for a limited number of Minnesotans. But the percentage of hunters who
successfully harvested a bull moose has steadily declined from 61
percent in 2001 to 45 percent in 2008.

The Fond du Lac band of Lake Superior Chippewa and the 1854 Treaty Authority contributed
funding and provided personnel for the annual survey.