A Michigan Tech student researcher, empathetic to the suffering of tick-infested moose — and with a personal ick for ticks — is working to bring the animals relief. Grace Moeggenborg, an applied ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Sportsmen hoping to bag a big moose are seeing increased competition from a tiny parasite that's cutting down moose populations in New England and across parts of the northern United ...

According to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, there are about 40,000 to 60,000 moose in the state. That number is down from 25 years ago, when the population was at its peak, ...

A warming climate has given ticks the upper hand. The state says a limited moose hunt where populations are densest will improve moose health.

Researchers now have 56 GPS-collared moose in the Upper Peninsula as scientists work to explain why the herd has fallen well short of earlier projections.

CHOTEAU, Mont. — Across North America — in places as far-flung as Montana and British Columbia, New Hampshire and Minnesota — moose populations are in steep decline. And no one is sure why. Twenty ...