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  • Sarah Hoy, Tara Bal and Grace Moeggenborg sit around a table covered in more than 50 small vials, each containing a winter tick used in their research.
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    Student Researcher Explores Balsam Fir Oil Solution to Tick Infestations on Moose

    A Michigan Tech student researcher, empathetic to the suffering of tick-infested moose — and with a personal ick for ticks — is working to bring the animals relief. Grace Moeggenborg, an applied ecology and environmental science student in Michigan Technological University's College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, is searching for a way to reduce winter tick populations using essential oil from balsam fir trees native to the region.

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