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Rutting Moose Wander Roads; Collisions Top 700 a Year
October 08, 2008 -
WINTER HARBOR — Bull moose are on the rut – their 1,000-pound bodies crashing through the forest, lumbering across roads looking for Ms. Right.
"When they go into the rut, they wander all over the place, then get out on the roads," said Ed Pontbriand, district manager of Acadia National Park on the Schoodic Peninsula. "Then it's the motorists and the moose. The moose usually loses."
The moose mating season, or rut, according to the Maine Department of Transportation, is in full force from late August through October and into November. Maine has about 29,000 moose, the largest moose population in the United States outside of Alaska.
According to the DOT, car-moose collisions have nearly doubled over the past 15 years and now top 700 annually, resulting in several fatalities and about 200 injuries.
– The Ellsworth American.
October 5, 2008
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