COLORADO (KKTV) – New research from an interdisciplinary team provides evidence that moose inhabited the southern Rocky Mountains in Colorado centuries before state wildlife reintroductions began in the 1970s.
Working from archaeological evidence, historical records, and Indigenous knowledge, the study, published in the Journal of Biogeography, finds moose specimens in northern Colorado dating back millennia.
“Our findings show unequivocally that moose are not invasive,” said lead author William Taylor, a University of Colorado Boulder associate professor of anthropology and CU Museum curator of archaeology. “In fact, they’re as native as any other critter can be in the southern Rockies.”…