Committee recommends steps to keep moose in Minn.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A panel of experts is recommending steps to ensure that Minnesota continues to have a moose population.

An advisory committee presented a report to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on Tuesday that says climate change is a potentially serious threat to the state’s moose herd. But it says moose are likely to persist in Minnesota for the foreseeable future, at least in the northeast.

The panel recommends using hunting to keep deer populations low in the northeast to reduce the spread of parasites from deer to moose, as well as banning the recreational feeding of deer in the moose range.

It also says moose hunting can continue in northeastern Minnesota, but requires close monitoring.

The DNR will use the report to develop a management plan.

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