BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 19, 2022
To help protect moose, state officials sometimes must take extreme measures. Among them is the annual capture and collaring of calves. During the first week of January, a helicopter crew from Native Range, a Nevada-based company specializing in capturing wildlife, visited Wildlife Management District 4 in the North Maine Woods, where it captured and placed GPS tracking collars on 70 young moose. Winter tick infestations are killing moose, and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife uses the collars to monitor moose mortality.