I referred to the northwest of the state, where the population is apparen= tly down from 3,500 moose in 1993 to about 400 in 2002... much more serious t= han a peridoic waxing-and-waning. A research study came out this year identi= fying several proximate factors, but proposing climate change as the common und= erlying cause.
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/02/09_gundersond_moos= edying/ >-- Original Message -- >Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 23:04:09 -0700 (PDT) >From: Steve Foss <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [mou] Re: Henslow's Sparrows (numbers) >To: Steve G <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > >Well, moose are not disappearing in NE minnesota. > >Still lots up here. > >While moose numbers wax and wane in northern Minnesota, the >apparent lack of pattern to their numbers has not been >explained, and, considering the limitiations of humanity, >such fluctuations probably won't be. > >--- Steve G <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ... >> So we may no longer have moose in Minnesota (they're >> disappearing from NW >> Minnesota because of the warming), but we'll have >> Henslow's Sparrows. More like Iowa, you might say. >> >> >> Stephen Greenfield >> Minneapolis >> [email protected]
