Posted on 04/29/2016 8:36:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Lee Kantar lost two moose calves this past weekend. They are just a few among many calves that did not survive their first year in the forests of Maine. Kantar, a moose biologist for the state’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, has only been tracking calves for a few years but early death is a trend he and others can see across the animal's southern range, which stretches through the northern U.S. and Canada. Scientists speculate that young and adult moose alike are plagued by new diseases and parasites. Brain worm and winter ticks, for example, are both worsening as the climate warms.
New research shows that rising temperatures and shorter winters in Alaska have helped moose conquer vast new stretches of territory. Food for the foraging animals is growing rapidly, ushering them into previously stark tundra. The migration likely is not just happening in Alaska but in Canada and northern Russia. "It's an adaptation that at least gives us hope that moose as a species can be maintained," Kantar says.
Experts suggest that the moose migration, primarily along rivers and streams that flow into the Arctic Ocean for hundreds of kilometers, might be one of the most dramatic wildlife shifts linked to climate change.
Not only are the moose munching on their food supply, the birds' nutritional loss is also likely to be followed by that of boreal predators such as red fox or lynx. He is even concerned about how the vegetation might shift - as moose browse willow but leave alder alone - and how that might affect the wildlife as well. "I don't know how it's all going to shake out," he says.
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What about pesky squirrel?
Love, Boris & Natasha
what a load of obama..
But will Cheese thrive?
The mooses will survive. However, there will be many more sisters bitten by mooses! LOL
Like the leftists are even concerned about anyone or anything beyond celebrities, cellphones, computers, and weed....please...
To be honest, that mag should remove the “Scientific” in the name following that joke of an article.
Way back when, there was actual real science there.
Now is not then.
This is all the radical, hand-wringing left have to offer. Of course trying to blame climate change, which has been going on since the creation of earth, on modern man.
They have to keep the shams going. Keeps them “in business”.
You forgot rump rangers.
“as moose browse willow but leave alder alone”
Lying bastard. They might leave alder alone but maybe this book smart asshole better take a trip to the UP of Mich where I have personally seen the destruction these critters do to timber regeneration.
I dont care if its maple, aspen or what. They will snap off saplings as big as your thumb. If there are any saplings left after the deer eat off the seedlings.
Friggin’ baloney. In NH there are moose, moose everywhere.
Don’t worry about the moose. They’re doing just fine, as long as we can keep the Feds away from them.
*cheese* gheeze!
That is a scary video! Did the guy survive?
Really. Don’t bring a ribbon to a moose fight.
Depends on the type of moose — Schroedinger’s Moose will both thrive and die.
Everything will die if we listen to the lying Socialist Climate Change Scammers
Well, since the so-called climate change (formerly known as ‘Global Warming’) is a fiction, neither one.
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