Aimee Hurt has trained dogs for conservation work for nine years
Wicket can identify six different kinds of scat, including moose
(10/02/09) Wildlife biologists say that New York state is home to more than 500 moose. Their population has surged in recent years. Researchers would like to know a lot more about the animals: what they're eating, where they're going, and why their numbers are growing so rapidly. A new project organized by the Wildlife Conservation Society aims to gather some of that data using trained tracking dogs. Brian Mann spent a day with a research team in the northern Adirondacks in May 2008 and has our story.
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