Burns and clear cuts provide good browse. Daily consumption is about 30 pounds of vegetation which translates to 5 tons per year. Moose spend most of their lives in a few square miles. Density can range from 1 animal per 1600 acres to one in 230 acres. First stage larvae in deer pellets enter snails as intermediate hosts and asexually multiply leaving as cercariae which are ingested by deer, moose or caribou.
Worms migrate via spinal cord to brain and burrow in.
Prior to death moose wander aimlessly and show little fear of humans. Thought to be an important cause of moose decline and certainly related to absence of caribou. Single moose can carry 25,000 to 40,000 ticks. White tailed deer. Populations have followed availability of food and peaked after cutting of an area when brouse is created by new growth.