Thompson et al. (2003) developed aspatial models based on
estimated probabilities of habitat use for a range of boreal wildlife
species: in 5–10-year-old conifer-dominated stands, they predicted
that moose were three times as likely to use stands harvested
and left for natural regeneration than stands with more
intensive silviculture; for mixedwoods of the same age, moose
use was six times as likely. For stands 10–30-years-old, the same
prediction was reduced to twice as likely for both conifer-dominated
and mixedwoods stands. Although we found that post-disturbance
treatments influence moose forage availability, our
estimates of moose use were not correlated to silvicultural treatments
at the stand level. As suggested by other studies (e.g., Dussault
et al., 2006), moose habitat suitability may be more