What’s Killing Minnesota’s Moose? | OnEarth Magazine
June 2013: More bad news for the dwindling "CO2-kills-moose" crowd: Minnesota moose deliver twice the expected rate of twin calves after mild winter of 2011-2012, but bears "hammer the calves" during 2013's snowy, cool spring
The population has nosedived in recent years, dropping to about a third of what it was in 2009. In the past year alone, their numbers plummeted 35 percent, leaving only about 2,700 moose...In New England, the rebounding of moose populations over the past 30 years has been one of the great comeback stories of conservation. Heavily logged forests have regrown, spreading ideal moose habitat—a mix of pine and spruce with oak and birch and maple, not dissimilar from the forests of Minnesota—over the mountains of the northeast. An aerial survey in Maine last year turned up an estimated population of 76,000 animals.Flashback: Attention, Minnesota alarmists: Can one of you explain why "an average annual temperature of just 41.2 degrees Fahrenheit" is too warm? Thanks in advance!
With an average annual temperature of just 41.2 degrees Fahrenheit, Minnesota is one of America's coldest states.
June 2013: More bad news for the dwindling "CO2-kills-moose" crowd: Minnesota moose deliver twice the expected rate of twin calves after mild winter of 2011-2012, but bears "hammer the calves" during 2013's snowy, cool spring
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