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The moose population peaked in the late 1990s, with between 7,000 and 7,500 moose in New Hampshire. Since that time, the population has gone down to about 4,000 animals today. About half the decline was an intentional response to the public's desire for fewer moose-car collisions.
By the winter of 1994-95, the Isle Royale moose population stood at 2,400, the biggest herd since the early 1930Ã­s and far higher than any count since 1949, when wandering wolves, perhaps only a pair, crossed a rare ice bridge from the Ontario mainland and first came to the island.