ALCES 47 (2011) CONTENTS THE FOUNDERS: A TRIBUTE TO PAT KARNS AND AL ELSEY .............................. i GIANT LIVER FLUKE IN NORTH DAKOTA MOOSE .......... James J. Maskey, Jr. 1 MOOSE EXPERIMENTALLY INFECTED WITH GIANT LIVER FLUKE (FASCIOLOIDES MAGNA) ............. Murray W. Lankester and William J. Foreyt 9 THE IMPACT OF HUMAN RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES: MOOSE AS A CASE STUDY ............... Wiebke Neumann, Göran Ericsson, and Holger Dettki 17 AIMS-THERMAL - A THERMAL AND HIGH RESOLUTION COLOR CAMERA SYSTEM INTEGRATED WITH GIS FOR AERIAL MOOSE AND DEER CENSUS IN NORTHEASTERN VERMONT .................................................................................. ..... Thomas L. Millette, Dana Slaymaker, Eugenio Marcano, Cedric Alexander, and Leif Richardson 27 MOOSE BROWSING AND FOREST REGENERATION: A CASE STUDY IN NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE ................ Daniel H. Bergeron, Peter J. Pekins, Henry F. Jones, and William B. Leak 39 STATUS AND MANAGEMENT OF MOOSE IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES ............................................. David W. Wattles and Stephen DeStefano 53 SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MOOSE HIGHWAY CROSSINGS DURING WINTER IN THE BUFFALO FORK VALLEY, WYOMING ......................................................................... Scott A. Becker, Ryan M. Nielson, Douglas G. Brimeyer, and Matthew J. Kauffman 69 BROCCOLI AND MOOSE, NOT ALWAYS BEST SERVED TOGETHER: IMPLEMENTING A CONTROLLED MOOSE HUNT IN MAINE ......... Lee E. Kantar 83 PRUDENT AND IMPRUDENT USE OF ANTLERLESS MOOSE HARVESTS IN INTERIOR ALASKA ........................ Donald D. Young Jr. and Rodney D. Boertje 91 USING COVER TYPE COMPOSITION OF HOME RANGES AND VHF TELEMETRY LOCATIONS OF MOOSE TO INTERPRET AERIAL SURVEY RESULTS IN MINNESOTA .. Ron Moen, Michael E. Nelson, and Andy Edwards 101 CHARACTERISTICS OF POST-PARTURITION AREAS OF MOOSE IN NORTHEAST MINNESOTA ............................... Amanda M. McGraw, Ron Moen, and Mike Schrage 113 PHENOTYPIC VARIATION IN MOOSE: THE ISLAND RULE AND THE MOOSE OF ISLE ROYALE .................. Rolf O. Peterson, John A. Vucetich, Dean Beyer, Mike Schrage, and Jannikke Räikkönen 125 (Continued on inside back cover) COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS OF MOOSE HABITAT IN NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA ............. Mark S. Lenarz, Robert G. Wright, Michael W. Schrage, and Andrew J. Edwards 135 ASSESSMENT OF CRUCIAL MOOSE WINTER HABITAT IN WESTERN WYOMING ....................... Megan A. Smith, Steve Kilpatrick, Brenda Younkin, Leigh Work, and Doug Wachob 151 FIRST NATIONS MOOSE HUNT IN ONTARIO: A COMMUNITY’S PERSPECT- IVES AND REFLECTIONS ................... Joseph W. LeBlanc, Brian E. McLaren, Christopher Pereira, Mark Bell, and Sheldon Atlookan 163 45TH NORTH AMERICAN MOOSE CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ................ 175 PREVIOUS MEETING SITES................................................................................. 177 DISTINGUISHED MOOSE BIOLOGIST - MICHAEL W. SCHRAGE ..................... 178 DISTINGUISHED MOOSE BIOLOGIST - PAST RECIPIENTS............................... 179 DISTINGUISHED MOOSE BIOLOGIST - AWARD CRITERIA ............................... 180 EDITORIAL REVIEW COMMITTEE........................................................................ 181 ADDITIONAL COPIES Available from: Lakehead University Bookstore, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1 Alces 39-46 Price $40.00 Canadian or U.S. each (including supplementary issues) Alces 24-38 Price $38.00 Canadian or U.S. each (including supplementary issues) Alces 17-23 Price $20.00 Canadian or U.S. each Proceedings of the North American Moose Conference and Workshop 8-16 Price $20.00 Canadian or U.S. each Make cheques, money orders or purchase orders payable to Lakehead University Bookstore. All prices include 5% G.S.T., mailing and handling costs. Prices are subject to change. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Brooke Pilley worked long hours formatting and typesetting manuscripts. ALCES HOME PAGE Further information on contents of past issues, prices, ordering, as well as instructions to submitting authors, are available at our website: http://bolt.lakeheadu.ca/~alceswww/alces.html