Michigan's Translocated Moose Population: 10 Years Later

摘要

Twenty-five bull moose (Alces alces) and 36 cow moose were translocated fromAlgonquin Provincial Park, Ontario to Marquette County, Michigan in 1985 and 1987. Mortality-sensing radio-collars fitted on these animals, and on 41 moose born and captured in Michigan during 1989-95, enabled biologists to track movements, census calves, and perform necropsies on dead animals. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources translocated 61 moose from Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, to Marquette County, Michigan in January-Feburary 1985 and February 1987, to reestablish a self-sustaining population on the mainland of Michigan's Upper Peninsula (U.P.). This paper reviews population growth, sources of mortality, movements of translocated moose and some of their offspring, survival of moose after they leave their dams, sexual maturation of female moose, and human responses to moose.