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Future Moose-Hunt Draws!
June 25, 1998 Kentville, N. S. - The annual moose hunt may be expanded next year, according to Tony Nette, a wildlife manager for the Department of Natural Resources in Kentville, Nova Scotia. Every year since 1986, the names of 200 Nova Scotians are drawn in a lottery for the sought-after licenses. That number is "currently under review," Nette says, and may increase to compensate for lack of access to hunting grounds as large tracts of Crown land come under provincial protection. This year's winners were chosen June 24rd in St. Anns on Cape Breton Island from 12,549 applications. The season runs October 12 to 24 in all of Inverness and Victoria counties. Each hunter may take one animal. Last year, 182 moose were taken, compared with 174 the year before. Aerial surveys and spot checks have ensured the Cape Breton herds are strong and healthy. There are moose in other areas of the province, but not in large enough herds to allow hunting, Nette says. The declining numbers of animals in scattered herds on the mainland are a mystery to biologists -- moose have not been hunted legally on the mainland since 1981. DNR is currently conducting research in the western end of the province, fitting captured moose with radio collars.
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