The BDN outdoors section brings readers into the woods, waters and wild places of Maine. It features stories on hunting, fishing, wildlife, conservation and recreation, told by people who live these ...

“Tell you what,” Drew Maciel told his Instagram followers in April, “I’m sick of finding dead moose.” He zoomed in on a dead bull moose lying prone on the ground, running the camera over clusters of ...

CONCORD, N.H. — In fall, hoards of winter ticks latch on to New Hampshire’s moose — sometimes upward of 50,000 per adult animal. Over the course of the winter, the ticks drink their fill of blood, ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — It’s a ghastly sight: ticks by tens of thousands burrowed into a moose’s broad body, sucking its lifeblood as the agonized host rubs against trees so vigorously that much ...

Winter ticks took a heavy toll on young moose again this year despite hopes that a fall drought would help kill off some of the parasites. Lee Kantar, a moose biologist with the Maine Department of ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Sportsmen hoping to bag a big moose are seeing increased competition from a tiny parasite that's cutting down moose populations in New England and across parts of the northern ...

Maine moose biologist Lee Kantar said 72% of the state’s GPS-collared moose calves died before reaching their first birthday ...

The University of New Hampshire is getting an $8 million grant to study ticks, the diseases they spread and the environments ...