I would find it VERY difficult to believe that a lone cow killed 8 wolves at one shot.

Of course not Dean, we have lost a tremendous amount of habitat and loosing more every day.

Thank goodness for the deer hunters or there wouldn't be a tree left around home.

Minnesota moose have declined from 16,000 to between 3,000 and 3,500. They say they are stable at that number but here’s the thing. Our wolves are small compared to the western wolves and avoid attacking full grown moose. Why ? Because they get killed by them. A friend of mine told about his friend who found a wolf killed cow moose and said the battlefield was huge but what stunned him was the 8 dead wolves killed by that cow. Now moose can live up to 15 years so if those remaining 3,000 moose all full grown are staying stable because of the difficulty wolves have killing them what happens when they age out and die. I predict a soon coming drastic fall from that 3,000 some number. The so called experts who are idiots in my opinion state global warming and brain worm and everything but wolves as reason for decline. Well there are healthy moose populations in numerous states far warmer than Minnesota so that’s just stupid and brain worm was present in the 70’s when I lived near Viking Minnesota and moose were everywhere. They would find one dead from brainworm from time to time but they stayed healthy for the most part. There were way more deer there then than now. The calves are being slaughtered every year mostly by wolves. Wolves are the sole reason Minnesota moose are disappearing period and anyone with a non liberal brain that lives in this wolf infested country knows it and it’s a tragedy.

Any way you look at the MN DNR will say you are wrong.

I was still in diapers in 1971 but my guess is there wasn't enough moose for a season before then.

Bush changes over time and favours different species at different times in its succession..