Moose resides by Hwy 10

[Lee Borgersen]

   Moose takes up residence near busy U.S. 10


   07/27/2015 09:43:26 PM CDT


Lucy the moose feasts in a bean field near Hawley, Minn. The young female moose has settled in the area and has won the hearts of neighbors and passers-by. (Courtesy of Minnesota Department of Natural Resources)

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HAWLEY, Minn. -- There's a moose on the loose near U.S. 10 on the way to lake country in Clay County, and the neighbors seem to love her.

"We named her Lucy -- Lucy the moosey. She's been there over three months," said Raymond Gierszewski, who lives about a half mile from where the moose likes to hang out near Minnesota 32, a few miles north of U.S. 10, about 25 miles east of Moorhead.

"There was quite a few at the township meeting awhile back -- everybody was talking about her," he said.

"She was just a calf the first time I seen her," he added. "She's been growing ever since. She's got everything she needs -- food, water, there's a bean field now she's eating in."

The Detroit Lakes DNR office is "probably averaging a call a day" from people concerned about the moose, said DNR Area Wildlife Manager Rob Baden.

Baden and several conservation officers checked on the moose and found no apparent problems.

"It's an adult female; she's been there since sometime in March," he said. "She seems to be completely healthy. She just likes hanging around that one area there."

Gierszewski said he has seen her head east a few times, but "she didn't like it; she came back. She pretty much stays in that quadrant."

Twenty years or so ago, a moose in that part of Minnesota would have been notable only because it settled down in farm country, but with the drastic decline in the state's moose population, people are especially concerned and interested in Lucy.


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[beeker]

now the wolves will know where to find her and the DNR will have to blame global warming or an brain worm for her death