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CHIPPEWA FALLS — There’s a moose wandering through Chippewa and Dunn counties that’s hungry and likely looking for romance.

He might be in luck: There may a second moose, this one a female, in the area.

Jess Carstens, wildlife biologist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, said he received reports of two sightings of a moose around Sand Creek in Dunn County the morning of Sept. 30. A resident claimed to see a cow moose on the edge of Sand Creek, but didn’t take any photos of the animal.

The next day there was a sighting — with photos taken — of a bull moose with antlers on Highways DD and 40, between Bloomer and Colfax in Chippewa County. Carstens said the size of the moose in the photos match those taken by trail cameras the prior weekend in Chetek, in Barron County.

“It’s unusual,” Carstens said of the moose sightings locally. He said these are the first moose sightings he’s encountered since he began working at the DNR’s Menomonie office in 1997.

“The vast majority of the sightings (in Wisconsin) are much further north,” he said, typically in counties near Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.