AR-News: Survey finds more moose

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Survey  finds more moose 
  MCGRATH: Increase is called 

By MARY PEMBERTON, The Associated Press

Published: February 24, 2004

Moose numbers
near McGrath, where a state-sponsored aerial wolf-kill program
is under way, have increased slightly in the past two years,
a state agency said Monday.

The increase, however, is so small as to be statistically
meaningless, a Department of Fish and Game biologist said.

State biologists last November counted 580 moose in the experimental
study area near McGrath, up from 531 in 2001.

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