In the spring of 1971, Minnesota announced its first open season on moose in modern times, and Parks decided to apply for a permit. He is a plastic-mold maker in Hopkins, Minnesota, and had hunted ...

In a forest clearing outside Ely, Minn., two scientists huddle over a moose calf as it dozes in the snow. The female calf is only nine months old but already weighs almost 500 pounds. It’s been ...

As a young wildlife biologist, Adam Mortensen has worked in the mountains of New Mexico, the high desert of northern California and the wilderness of Isle Royale, where he lived out of a tent and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The difficult-to-detect meningeal worm is spread by white-tailed deer and is a notorious killer of moose. AP Photo/Jim Cole, File ...

Around the early 2,000’s there were rough estimates of 8,000-9,000 Moose inhabiting the Northland. However, their populations were rapidly declining for a multitude of reasons, leading to the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A deer hunter admitted he messed up and bagged a moose, whose population is a far cry from what it was in Minnesota two decades ago, according to a criminal complaint filed last ...