Our goal is to use up to 100 GPS-tracked moose to understand the causes of observed population declines for moose in the east-central boreal forest. Throughout 2022 and into 2023 we made a number of important investments in this milestone, including the recruitment of Ms. Ayicia Nabigon (NSERC CGS and Indigenous Scholar Award winner) who commenced her M.Sc. program on the project in September 2022. Following a monthly series of moose management meetings with the province of Saskatchewan and several community meetings, we deployed GPS tracking collars on 65 moose to launch our program in early March, 2023. Moose collars were deployed across a variety of habitats in east-central Saskatchewan (Fig. 4) with local concentrations in areas where we currently have GPS-tracking data on white-tailed deer (potential competitors and vectors of disease). Samples for moose including fecal samples are currently being used by M.Sc. student Ms. Linnea McLellan (supervised by Emily Jenkins) to screen for moose parasites. Blood samples and at-capture cow:calf ratios suggested that recruitment from 2022–2023 was low (31 calves per 100 cows), and current pregnancy rates (78.5% of cows) suggest lower projected recruitment for the 2023–2024 interval.