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The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is conducting their annual moose population survey. Three IFW wildlife biologists, including moose biologist Lee Kantar, fly selected areas each year in a number of wildlife management districts across the state. The IFW crew does both population surveys and composition counts. The population survey is a number count, and the composition counts give biologists a glimpse at the compilation of the population, including the number of bulls compared to