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A moose was weighed last week after being shot near Rockwood, Maine.
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IN MAINE, MOOSE ARE BEING KILLED IN EFFORT TO SAVE THEM


WITH THE ICONIC ANIMALS BESET BY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF BLOOD-SUCKING TICKS, THE
STATE HAS PUT ITS FAITH IN A CONTROVERSIAL PLAN TO CULL THE HERD

A moose was weighed last week after being shot near Rockwood, Maine.
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JULIE WERNAU

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| Photographs by Ashley L. Conti for The Wall Street Journal
Nov. 1, 2021 9:00 am ET

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ROCKWOOD, Maine—Twenty miles from the nearest paved road, Lee Kantar was deep in
the woods last week to investigate a killing—one he had helped arrange. As his
pickup bounced along a rutted logging road, the bearded biologist watched for
carrion-craving ravens, tire tracks or other clues that might lead him to the
pile of guts left over after a hunter field-dresses a freshly killed moose.

“When someone drags a 500-pound moose out of the woods, there’s evidence,” he
said. A hunter had told him she had killed a moose in the area, he said, and he
was eager to examine its discarded organs to see what they might say about the
health of moose in the area.

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