The Central District of Ontario comprises all that part of the 

 Province which is not included in the Northern District or the Southern 

 District. 



Wildlife Management 

 Moose 



The moose inventory upon which the 1956 open season decisions 

 will be based was again carried out throughout the province. The results 

 are presented in Table 1. It will be seen that the total for the province 

 is a little higher than in 195^- There is probably little change in the 

 status of moose in the province, and any changes in the totals for 

 individual districts are the result of revisions of estimates based on more 

 complete data. For example, a moose census research project was carried 

 out with the aid of a helicopter and beaver aircraft in the White River, 

 Chapleau and Gogama Districts during the winter. The result of this gave 

 Gogama District some very complete counts of moose on some study areas. 

 Interpolation of these results over the whole district enabled the staff to 

 revise their moose population estimate upward from an estimate of I690 in 

 1954 to 4451 in 1955. 



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