MOOSE ON CAPE BRETON ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA: 20TH CENTURY DEMOGRAPHICS AND EMERGING ISSUES IN THE 21ST CENTURY

• Main Authors: Bridgland, James, Nette, Tony, Dennis, Charlie, Quinn, Derek
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Lakehead University 2007
• Subjects: Breton Island; Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: http://alcesjournal.org/index.php/alces/article/view/365

Presumed extirpated in the early 1900s, moose were re-introduced to Cape Breton Island by the federal Park Service in the late 1940s. After 25 years of gradual growth the population expanded rapidly following a spruce budworm outbreak in the mid- to late-1970s, yielding a large huntable population b...