DULUTH, Minn. — Northern Minnesota's moose have been hanging on for the past decade, reproducing and surviving at a rate barely able to keep up with an onslaught by wolves, bears, ticks and brainworm from deer.
First it was northwestern Minnesota's moose that disappeared, in the 1990s, from thousands to virtually none over just one decade.
Then, northeastern moose numbers crashed by 70% from a modern high of 8,840 moose estimated in 2006 to just 2,700 by 2013.
