Northern Moose Alliance wants your trail camera images of moose from northeast Minnesota

Grand Marais, Minn. — Do you have a trail camera in northeast Minnesota that occasionally captures photos of moose? If yes, Northern Moose Alliance need your help.

The alliance is seeking photos from trail cameras across the northeast moose range to help document the potential effects of winter ticks on moose health and survival.

Photos that contain a side profile or a quartering to or away angle of a moose are ideal to allow alliance staff to score the amount of hair loss and develop a potential gradient of tick loads across core moose range.

The most critical period of health impacts from winter ticks occurs between March 15-May 15 annually.

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Given the two consecutive mild winters preceding this year, alliance staff are expecting moose to have heavy tick loads. This causes them to rub off their hair and this behavior intensifies in late winter and spring.

By understanding the impact of winter ticks on moose across the northeast landscape, researchers hope to learn if there are places where forest management may reduce this burden.

To participate, go this link to attach your moose photo(s) and fill out a short data form.

Learn more at www.moosealliance.org/.