Caribou in the News -- October 31, 2005

Here's a smattering of news and views on the Internet over the last couple of months...

Canadians Beg Americans to Stop Drilling in the Refuge
www. BeingCaribou.com The 2006 U.S. Budget contains language to open the Refuge to drilling. But the Budget is still not reconciled, the Refuge is still not open, the caribou reached the calving grounds to calve and rest and are now on their epic journey back through bug-infested tundra to...

Caribou herds may be abandoned
Globe and Mail - Canada VANCOUVER -- Some of the world's last herds of mountain caribou could be abandoned and left to die out under a provincial government action plan being studied ...

Opponents slam plan to allow off-road vehicle use along Dalton
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA... a public comment session Tuesday argued that lifting the long-standing ban would damage the area's landscape, increase hunting pressure on caribou and moose ...

National Park news
Jasper Booster - Jasper,Alberta,Canada... The fall caribou count for South Jasper and the Whitegoat Wilderness area was recently completed. Parks biologists spotted 82 caribou ...

A lip-service energy policy
Minnesota Daily - Minneapolis,MN,USA... shipment. Of course, the only reason ANWR has not been opened yet is because environmentalists say we risk upsetting a few caribou. ...

Conference brings attention to global warming
KTUU - Anchorage,AK,USA... When herds of hoofed animals like caribou or reindeer roam the tundra, they of course have to eat. The Native people who hunt these ...

Protestors rally against ANWR drilling
Sun Star Newspaper - Fairbanks,AK,USA... at ANWR.". "Caribou may be at risk," said Frank Maxwell, a member of the Northern Alaska Environmental Center. "Their vegetation ...

Sierra Club criticizes Parks' caribou plan
Jasper Booster - Jasper,Alberta,Canada... Booster -- The Sierra Club of Canada is criticizing Parks Canada for taking inadequate measures in the restoration and protection of woodland caribou herds in ...

Stop Selling Our Heritage for Crooked Oil: Save Arctic Wildlife ...
Collective Bellaciao - Paris,France... Far from being the frozen "desert" some suggest, this is a rich, Serengeti-like haven of life: nursery for caribou, polar bears, walruses and millions of ...

‘Truth' About ANWR: Tell It All, Sarah James
Human Events - USA... A poor Alaskan native tribe, calling itself "the Caribou people," fights desperately to save the Porcupine Caribou herd, which roams the region, providing ...