RAY BROOK (AP) -- A biologist with the state Department of Environmental Conservation says the Adirondack moose population explosion predicted a few years ago hasn't happened yet.

DEC's Ed Reed tells the Adirondack Daily Enterprise that biologists haven't seen a great increase in moose numbers since they started doing aerial surveys in 2007.

There were two aerial surveys this winter concentrating on a 77-square-mile area just south of Upper Chateaugay Lake. Reed said the area has probably the highest moose density in the state.

Biologists spotted seven moose there.

Reed noted that the aerial survey only captures a small snapshot of the moose population and that an intensive study of the population hasn't been done.

The DEC estimates the population to be about 800 to 1,000 moose.

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