Great thread guys! I don't track all of it, but think I'm getting the gist. It would seem to be proof positive that northern LMB feed in winter since I've caught lots of them through the ice in my Iowa pond. And if only a portion of an individual BOW's LMB population are winter feeders, this would explain superior growth rates for some of the LMB in a given northern BOW, yes? I thought I read that forage conversion rates are lower in cold temperatures, but slow conversion beats none.
