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By Veronica Beltran

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Poop picking: UNBC biologist and students look to determine moose summer diet

Oct 8, 2020 | 11:43 AM

PRINCE GEORGE—Poop picking.

That’s what UNBC Biologist, Dr. Roy Rea and his team of student researchers spend this past summer doing; picking up moose droppings in the McLeod Lake Mackenzie Community Forest, north of Prince George.

“Although we have recently determined what comprises the moose winter diet, little to nothing is known about what eat in summer.”—UNBC Video

According to a video posted on the University’s YouTube, showing Dr. Rea and his students on their summer quest, says moose populations have declined by 70 per cent in the past 20 years. The reasons as to why moose populations have seen such a decline have not entirely been pin-pointed, and may be attributed to several reasons.

The partnership between McLeod Lake Mackenzie Community Forest and UNBC aimed at determining what moose eat over the summer months. Finding out what they ingest during the summer months to be able to endure northern winters would lead biologists to try and promote the specific growth of those plants—determining whether or not the lack of food may be part of the reason for the animal’s decline.

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