Caribou in the News - December 19, 2006

Naturalist sees red in reindeer myths
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA
... Ranger. The scientific name for reindeer, or caribou, is
Rangifer tarandus. However, Clement Clark Moore, Henry Livingston Jr. or ...

Art With Heart Student Effort to Protect Ontario's Caribou
Guelph Tribune - Guelph,ON,Canada
A class of Grade 4 students from St. Joseph school is hoping to make a
difference for Ontario's caribou population. The students ...

Clock is ticking for caribou
Now Toronto - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... animals. But the woodland caribou, which has already been pushed
out of 40 per cent of its range in the province, doesn't have time. ...

Caribou in the News - December 14, 2006

Google News Alert for: caribou

Woodland caribou headed for extinction: activists
Fort Frances Times - ON, Canada
... dressed as Santa Claus, descended on the Ontario legislature
yesterday to warn about the dwindling ranks of a long-time Christmas
fixture: the woodland caribou ...

Lingerie catalogue changes paper to help save caribou
Regina Leader-Post - Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada
MONTREAL -- A two-year campaign by environmental activists that
pitted beautiful women in sexy lingerie against photos of denuded boreal
forest ended Wednesday ...

Milwaukee Zoo Animals Dead After Eating Yew
CBS 5 - Green Bay - WI
(AP) MILWAUKEE A moose, caribou and American elk died at the
Milwaukee County Zoo after being mistakenly fed donated yew -- a
plant that can be poisonous to ...

Activists want caribou habitat protected
Thunder Bay's Source - Thunder Bay,Ontario,Canada
Environmental activists visited the Ontario legislature Thursday
to raise awareness of a threat to the province's population of
woodland caribou. ...

Victoria's Secret slips into green for caribou
Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... a retail giant that publishes 350 million Victoria's Secret catalogues
a year, will no longer use suppliers who obtain paper from any caribou
habitat in Canada ...

Caribou plan announced
The Spokesman Review - Spokane,WA,USA
British Columbia is looking to transplant more caribou and
build newborn calf protection pens in hopes of boosting endangered
caribou herds that roam the ...

Alberta: Woodland Caribou Sacrificed as Government Forces ...
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC,Canada
... that the Alberta Government is directing forestry companies to commence
liquidation of pine forest in critical habitat of mountain woodland caribou as part of ...

Hunting restrictions considered to save NWT caribou herd
CBC North - Canada
... Ernie Campbell says restricting hunting along the roadsides in the Bathurst range would address the issue of meat wastage when caribou are wounded but not ...

Caribou links galore!! Go to rangifer.net

Just a reminder of an excellent online compendium of caribou links, for both general audiences and researchers. Includes links to educational resources, films, photos, management and more...a treasure trove!!

http://www.rangifer.net/rangifer/resresources/index.cfm

Caribou in the News - November 21, 2006

Vuntut Gwitchin denies caribou hunting requests
CBC North - Canada
The Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation has stopped granting non-members permission to hunt caribou along the Dempster Highway in an attempt to ease pressure on the ...

New caribou count needed, says Yukon hunting group
CBC North - Canada
Wildlife officials need to do a new count of the Porcupine caribou herd before considering hunting limitations, said the Yukon Fish and Game Association ...

Monday talks to expose Inuit division over boom in Arctic uranium
News1130 - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... Most of the exploration is near Baker Lake and the Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary, home to 800,000 caribou. Ross Thompson of the Beverly ...

WikiSpecies: Caribou

Ever heard of Wikipedia? Well, here's WikiSpecies for caribou: http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rangifer_tarandus

They need some contibutors!

Caribou in the News - November 14, 2006

Battle lines drawn over caribou
Salmon Arm Observer - B.C., Canada
... But what the government is calling a sensible compromise to preserve remaining caribou habitat is being denounced as proof that snowmobiling Socreds are still ...

Judge reopens Idaho snowmobile trails in caribou recovery area
Longview Daily News - Longview,WA,USA
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - A federal judge has reopened popular snowmobile trails in northern Idaho surrounding Priest Lake that had been closed to protect caribou ...

Elusive creatures of the forest
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... and fearing an industry backlash will weaken a proposed "huge improvement" in the Species Act — said this week it would make protecting caribou, and their ...

Are snowmobiling Socreds running the environment?
Richmond Review - BC, Canada
... But a recently released study on prospects for saving the endangered mountain caribou in BC’s eastern high country has environmentalists breaking out the ...
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Caribou in the News - Nov.6, 2006

Caring for caribou
24 Hours Vancouver - Canada
BC's declining mountain caribou population needs help, but a controversial recommendation to kill off its predators has environmentalists' heads spinning. ...

Report predicts mountain caribou recovery possible
North Thompson Times - Clearwater,British Columbia,Canada
... Everything from possibly relocating mountain caribou from larger to smaller herds, to removing predators such as cougars and wolves or removing other ungulates ...

Caribou in the News - October 31, 2006

Caribou: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Home to the 'Alaska Wildlife Notebook Series' publication.

Saving the Caribou
Opinion250 News - Prince George,British Columbia,Canada
The Province is now calling for interested parties to speak up and let them know what options should be adopted to save the mountain caribou from extinction. ...

Caribou plan out
Prince George Free Press - BC, Canada
VICTORIA – BC’s endangered mountain caribou population can be preserved in at least part of its remaining Rocky Mountain range without extensive new ...

Science News
Canada East - Canada
... VICTORIA (CP) - The BC government says it can rebuild threatened caribou herds in the province's mountain regions, but it will mean moving some animals and ...

British Columbia May Kill Cougars, Wolves for Caribou Recovery
Environment News Service - USA
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Canada, October 25, 2006 (ENS) – A new government plan to save British Columbia’s threatened mountain caribou involves moving ...

Government introduces caribou survival plan
Victoria Times Colonist - Victoria,BC,Canada
VICTORIA -- A government plan to save threatened caribou herds in BC's mountain regions includes moving some animals and killing off their predators. ...

Can BC help save endangered caribou?
Globe and Mail - Canada
... Colleen McCrory, an environmentalist who has spent most of the past decade fighting to protect Canada's last, dwindling herds of mountain caribou, was in shock ...

New minister targets shrinking caribou herds
CBC North - Canada
Declining barrenground caribou herds in the Northwest Territories are moving to the top of the agenda for new Natural Resources Minister Michael McLeod. ...

Petition aims to stop aerial wolf shooting
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
... bears have been killed. The program intended to boost moose and caribou population is entering its fourth year. "From Anchorage to ...

Caribou in the News - October 24, 2006

Testimony leans against proposed changes to Nelchina caribou hunt
KTVA - Anchorage,AK,USA
AP. The state Board of Game is getting an earful this weekend from opponents of proposed changes to the popular Nelchina caribou hunt. ...

Game board adds new restrictions to caribou hunting in Nelchina ...
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
The Alaska Board of Game changed the highly restricted Nelchina caribou hunt slightly Monday, including reducing the maximum number of permits per household. ...

Caribou advocates, USFS seek trail deal
The Spokesman Review - Spokane,WA,USA
Caribou advocates will work with the US Forest Service in coming weeks in an attempt to determine which trails could be reopened in caribou habitat, following ...

Game Board adds new restrictions to caribou hunting in Nelchina ...
KTVA - Anchorage,AK,USA
AP. The state Board of Game has added new restrictions to hunting caribou in the Nelchina Basin. The board Monday unanimously agreed ...

Snowmobilers want trails in caribou recovery zone reopened
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
AP. COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- US Forest Service officials and groups that want caribou habitat in northern Idaho protected from snowmobiles plan to meet to decide ...
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Car kills caribou on Colorado highway

The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
GREELEY, Colo. (AP) -- Wildlife officials were puzzled by the rare appearance a caribou that was struck and killed by a car in Colorado this week, hundreds of ...

Biologist tells panel proposed northern pipeline would threaten ...
Canoe.ca - Canada
... CP) - A biologist has told a panel reviewing the massive Mackenzie Gas Project that the proposed $7-billion pipeline would threaten caribou herds if it's ...

Caribou killed in La Salle
Greeley Tribune - Greeley,CO,USA
... "It was a caribou," Fisher said later, but as he watched it grazing beside the highway, tragedy struck. ... The caribou -- a buck -- had a large rack of antlers. ...

Caribou likely to be hurt by pipeline, biologist says
Globe and Mail - Canada
Yellowknife -- A biologist says he doesn't buy claims from the backers of the Mackenzie pipeline project that it won't hurt caribou herds. ...

Caribou killed on Colorado highway came from private herd
KTVA - Anchorage,AK,USA
AP. Wildlife officials have solved the mystery of the Colorado caribou. Wildlife officials initially said they didn't know of any ...
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Caribou roadkill gives officials double take
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... The last person to see a caribou running free in these parts was wrapped in the skin of a saber-toothed tiger, bracing against the ice sheet covering the ...

Caribou mystery solved: Animal was owned by Weld man
Greeley Tribune - Greeley,CO,USA
No, the caribou did not travel thousands of miles south to find his fateful death being hit by a car in Weld County on Tuesday morning. ...
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Caribou in the News Oct 11, 2006

Fate of Peary caribou sparks heated debate
Nunatsiaq News - Iqaluit,Nunavut,Canada
Will Peary caribou one day disappear if Inuit continue to hunt them without government-imposed quotas? That question provoked some ...

Game Board to hold meeting on Nelchina caribou hunt
KTVA - Anchorage,AK,USA
AP. The Board of Game held hearings this past weekend on plans that may dramatically overhaul the popular Nelchina caribou hunt. ...
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Caribou in the News - October 3, 2006

Board ponders Peary caribou herd's fate
CBC North - Canada
... millions of dollars in consultations and studies, the Nunavut government and the territory's land claims organization are still at odds over the Peary caribou. ...

Judge bans snowmobiles to protect caribou in northern Idaho
KTVB - Boise,ID,USA
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Aiming to help save northern Idaho's rare mountain caribou, a federal judge has declared nearly 470 square miles of national forest land near ...

Caribou News: Sept.26, 2006

Hunting banned for Cape Bathurst caribou
CBC North - Canada
The Tuktoyaktuk Hunters and Trappers Committee voted in favour of a two-year hunting ban for the Cape Bathurst caribou herd at a meeting in the community ...

NWT caribou herd drops by 60,000 since 2003
CBC.ca - Alberta, Canada
The latest count of the largest caribou herd in the Northwest Territories shows it has shrunk to less than a third of the size it was 20 years ago. ...

Protect caribou by killing logging not wolves: group
Fort Frances Times - ON, Canada
OTTAWA — Environmentalists are slamming a proposal to protect British Columbia’s dwindling population of mountain caribou by killing wolves and cougars. ...

 

Caribou in the News -- September 21, 2006

Don't kill wolves and cougars to save caribou, BC urged
Edmonton Journal (subscription) - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
OTTAWA - A proposal to kill wolves and cougars to protect British Columbia's dwindling population of mountain caribou is misguided, environmentalists say. ...

BC fails to protect caribou, report charges
Globe and Mail - Canada
... For nearly 30 years, the government of British Columbia has been struggling to save the province's dwindling population of mountain caribou, a rare variant of ...

Nunavik caribou draw thousands of southern hunters
Nunatsiaq News - Iqaluit,Nunavut,Canada
... men with American accents flood airline flights from Montreal to Kuujjuaq before fanning out across Nunavik in bush planes for week-long caribou hunting trips. ...

Environmentalists oppose BC proposals to protect caribou by ...
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
OTTAWA (CP) - Environmentalists are denouncing proposals to protect British Columbia's dwindling population of mountain caribou by killing wolves and cougars. ...

Protect caribou by killing logging, not wolves: environmentalists
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
OTTAWA (CP) - Environmentalists are slamming a proposal to protect British Columbia's dwindling population of mountain caribou by killing wolves and cougars. ...

Caribou in the News -- September 11, 2006

NWT caribou herds continue decline
CBC North - Canada
The number of caribou continues to drop in the Cape Bathurst, Bluenose-East and Bluenose-West herds, the NWT government's summer survey says. ...

Attention Caribou: It's time for your closeup
Reuters - USA
... "The White Planet," a documentary about life in the Arctic, was delayed by a year as filmmakers waited for a herd of nearly half a million caribou to gather ...

Northern aboriginals debate what to do about continuing caribou ...
Canoe.ca - Canada
By BOB WEBER. (CP) - Northern aboriginal groups were discussing what to do after the release Thursday of survey data that showed caribou herds many depend on ...

Caribou in the News -- September 5, 2006

Declining NWT caribou herds mean fewer hunting tags
CBC North - Canada
Despite a solid hunting season, outfitters in the Northwest Territories will see a decline in caribou sport-hunting next year. The ...

Mystery skull belongs to caribou calf
Nunatsiaq News - Iqaluit,Nunavut,Canada
The mysterious skull unearthed in Pangnirtung several months ago is nothing more than the remains of a young caribou, says an esteemed archeologist. ...

Caribou in the News -- August 29, 2006

Environmentalists take federal government to court to protect BC ...
Calgary Sun - Canada... the proposed Tulsequah Chief mine have initiated a legal challenge against the federal government saying the project could wipe out a protected caribou herd. ...

BC: Legal action challenges federal government to protect caribou
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC,Canada... 160 kilometre access road into a pristine, rich and sensitive ecological area, with devastating impacts on local wildlife including a herd of caribou that are ...

Caribou cited in lawsuit over British Columbia mine plan
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA... 100-mile road through one of the largest roadless areas on the continent and reopening the mine could damage or wipe out the protected East Atlin caribou herd. ...

NWT caribou population plummets
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
INUVIK, NWT -- Caribou has disappeared from restaurant menus in this Arctic community and the meat is becoming scarce, even in the homes of aboriginal hunters. ...

Arctic caribou decline a mystery
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
INUVIK, NWT - Caribou has disappeared off restaurant menus in this Arctic community and the meat is becoming scarce, even in the homes of aboriginal hunters. ...

Caribou in the News -- August 20, 2006

Hard life may get harder for caribou
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
The forest-dwelling woodland caribou, in turn, define the wilderness in Ontario's boreal forest. They are an indicator species — and they may be doomed. ...

Caribou habitat faces threat
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
When it comes to woodland caribou, a species designated as threatened, Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources has a soul divided. ...

Province wants input on caribou
Fort Frances Times - ON, Canada
... taking action to protect species at risk by inviting the public to comment on a draft recovery strategy for forest-dwelling woodland caribou, Natural Resources ...

Little Smoky cows give birth to a new generation of caribou
Hinton Parklander - Canada
Hinton Parklander — When they shut the corral gates last spring, Sustainable Resource Development (SRD) staff counted ten caribou -- when the gates were ...

Caribou Landscape Management Association (CLMA) Quicknote #2
....the Yukon-based Chisana Caribou herd, experienced high calf-mortality. The Chisana Caribou Project. placed cows and their calves in an enclosure to protect ...

Alberta Chamber of Resources
The story of the Yukon Government’s successful intervention with the Chisana caribou herd demonstrates there are alternatives that can give caribou a chance ...

Caribou in the News June 20, 2006

More calves join Chisana caribou herd

Whitehorse Star (subscription) - Whitehorse,Yukon,Canada

BIG BOUNDARY LAKE – For the fourth and final time, 45 caribou calves and their mothers left a pen along the banks of Big Boundary Lake and headed toward the ...

Mountain caribou in steep decline
Salmon Arm Observer - B.C., Canada
By Barb Brouwer. Mountain caribou populations are in severe decline in British Columbia and conservationists want the province to do something about it - now. ...

Rare caribou coat to remain in Canada
CBC New Brunswick - New Brunswick,Canada
A rare 18th-century caribou-skin coat will stay in Canada, after weeks of discussions and dealing on the part of Newfoundland and Labrador's The Rooms and the ...

Caribou in the News June 15, 2006

Threat to caribou official
Winnipeg Sun - CanadaThe woodland caribou is being listed as "threatened" under Manitoba's Endangered Species Act, Conservation Minister Stan Struthers announced yesterday. ...

Manitoba's woodland caribou threatened
Winnipeg Sun - CanadaManitoba's woodland caribou populations are being listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act to strengthen steps already taken by the province to ...

Caribou in the News -- June 6, 2006

NWT lauded for caribou protection strategy
CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - St. John's,Newfoundland,Canada
The Northwest Territories is on the right track when it comes to protecting the woodland caribou, a new report from two environmental groups says. ...

Rooms in talks to buy historic caribou coat
CBC.ca - Alberta, Canada
Newfoundland and Labrador's provincial museum, The Rooms, says it will try to buy a rare caribou coat before it's sold to a private collector in the United ...

Development threatens woodland caribou: report
CTV.ca - Canada
EDMONTON -- Canada's declining herds of woodland caribou will only survive if governments move to protect large tracts of northern forest from industrial ..

Woodland caribou need protection, report says
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
EDMONTON (CP) -- Canada's declining herds of woodland caribou will only survive if governments move to protect large tracts of northern forest from industrial ...

Anatomy resource on Project Caribou site

New at the Project Caribou web site support materials page (near bottom).

For those in communities with access to fresh caribou carcasses (legal hunting and subsistence activities), this reference (1MB PDF) will help with assessing animal health and learning about caribou anatomy (Courtesy E. Maltin)

Caribou in the News May 30, 2006

Canada's woodland caribou survival at risk -report
Reuters Canada, Canada - TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's federal, provincial and territorial governments are failing to safeguard the survival of the woodland caribou, according to a ...

Woodland caribou need government to protect forests from industry ...
Canada.com, Canada - May 29, 2006 EDMONTON (CP) - Canada's declining herds of woodland caribou will only survive if governments move to protect large tracts of northern forest from industrial ...

Wildlife group raps province
Winnipeg Sun, Canada - By JOYANNE PURSAGA, STAFF REPORTER. The Manitoba government lacks the "political will" to save a species on the path to extinction ...

WEB UPDATE: Manitoba criticized on woodland caribou
Winnipeg Free Press (subscription), Canada - By Martin Cash. The Manitoba government’s continued refusal to include the woodland caribou on its endangered species list is contributing ...

New to website: Activity support materials

There are a few new Project Caribou resources on the website (www.projectcaribou.net), thanks to Elise Maltin, Education Specialist, Northern Canada, Parks Canada Agency (more Parks Canada education info at www.pc.gc.ca/education.

Please, send in your materials and experiences to share!!

Likin' Lichen (p 90)
Data sheet for recording information in a one-metre quadrat (from E. Maltin)

Checks and Balances (p 66)
Data sheet for tabulating figures generated in this activity (from E. Maltin).

Oh Caribou (adapted from Oh Deer, Project WILD)
Here's an adaptation of the famous Project WILD activity.

Caribou News May 17, 2006

[Editor's note: Sorry for the long period since the last posting...my source, Google Alerts, went AWOL for a while. I really like this first story!]

Kimberley School shows thier concern for caribou
North Thompson Times - Clearwater,British Columbia,Canada... teachers and parents from Lindsay Park Elementary School in Kimberley, BC, bent and stretched their bodies to from a 100-foot mountain caribou to help raise ...

Overhunting by explorer blamed for tiny Peary caribou herds
Edmonton Journal (subscription) - Edmonton,Alberta,CanadaCould polar explorer Robert Peary have pushed a small population of pint-sized caribou to the verge of extinction on Ellesmere Island? ...

Caribou at risk with all mining activity, biologist warns
Nunatsiaq News - Iqaluit,Nunavut,Canada
Caribou can be affected by every phase of mining activity, beginning with exploration, says Leslie Wakelyn, a contract biologist with the Beverly and ...

Caribou left out of uranium talks
Nunatsiaq News - Iqaluit,Nunavut,Canada
The Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board was not pleased to learn that Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. is drafting a policy for ...

Board to set predator control boundaries
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner -
Fairbanks,AK,USA... Most of the proposals are aimed at killing more bears and wolves to increase the number of moose and caribou for sport and subsistence hunters throughout the ...

Many culprits active in caribou decline
Globe and Mail - CanadaBy MARK HUME. VANCOUVER -- It's easy to tell when a wolf pack has killed a caribou. From the frenzy of tracks left in the snow, you ...

Curriculum Correlations for Yukon/BC for resources like Project Caribou

Another reminder: You can easily search which learning objectives fit with your grade and subject for learning resources including:
Project Caribou
Project WET
Project WILD
Backyard Biodiversity and Beyond
Protected Areas
Wild Sheep
and more!

See www.hctf.ca/wild/educator/irp/cc/cc.htm

Good news/ bonnes nouvelles, caribou Québec

MRNF- Communiqués de presse (francais) :

MRNF: Press Release (Google translation)

"Good News for Caribou in the Gaspésie (Québec)"
"De bonnes nouvelles pour le caribou de la Gaspésie"

Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, le 6 avril 2006 � Dans le cadre du Plan de rétablissement du caribou de la Gaspésie en vigueur depuis 2002, le ministére des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune (MRNF) constate que les efforts déployés pour la sauvegarde de ce troupeau ont donné des résultats trés encourageants.

Caribou Poem

This note received from a Project Caribou web/blog reader...thanks!

I wrote the following poem after attending a conference on climate change at
the University of Utah early this month.

Caribou, 2006

Each spring, big with calf,
she’d scrape the snow
aside with her dark hooves
to feed on rich red lichen.

Now—she splashes in winter rain.
There’s only water to eat.
Inside her, the calf moves.

Picking her way
across wet, soggy earth,
she scans the horizon
for snow, ice, anything firm.

Once, cold held up her whole world.

Jean Cheney
March 22, 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah

Caribou in the News -- March 16, 2006

Wolf cull worries conservationists
CBC Calgary - Calgary,Alberta,Canada
The association says 34 wolves have been killed so far as part of the province's effort to protect the woodland caribou herd near Jasper National Park. ...

Wolf shooting continues
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA...
The wolf program, intended to boost moose and caribou populations, started in 2003 in an area where residents had long complained that predators were killing ...

Caribou (New References) March 2, 2006

Various Caribou references at the Foothills Model Forest website
Including...

• The Caribou Landscape Management Association: Working Together Towards Caribou Conservation.
• The Yukon: Caribou Cow/Calf Program (Chisana Herd)
• Caribou Landscape Management Association: Minimizing Industrial Impact in West-Central Alberta Caribou Habitat -- February 2006.
• Caribou Landscape Management Association: Quicknote #1 -- February 2006.

Interesting! Caribou in the News February 23, 2006

Protect historic caribou coats: anthropologist
CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - St. John's,Newfoundland,Canada
An anthropologist with Memorial University says the provincial museum should intervene in the sale of a special coat made from caribou hide. ...

Caribou numbers down, hunters cry 'wolf'
CBC North - Canada
Wolves may be the next target in the NWT's campaign to stop the reduction of barren-land caribou herds. On Monday the territorial ...

Modest proposal: cool times at the Trump ANWR
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA...
Oil drilling should be part of a smart-growth, mixed-use development -- a world-class resort with casinos, malls and strip clubs (think caribou-fur thongs). ...

Melting ice patch yields 1,400-year-old moccasin
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... wear. It probably belonged to a hunter, because it's in an area where there are weapon fragments and caribou bones but no campsites. ...

Caribou in the News -- February 16, 2006

Wolf cull worries conservationists
CBC Calgary - Calgary,Alberta,Canada
The association says 34 wolves have been killed so far as part of the province's effort to protect the woodland caribou herd near Jasper National Park. ...

Wolf shooting continues
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA...
The wolf program, intended to boost moose and caribou populations, started in 2003 in an area where residents had long complained that predators were killing ...

Caribou in the News -- February 3, 2006

National Caribou Commons Tour Comes To Town
Westchester.com - Westchester, NY, USA...
Caribou Commons brings to life the character of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge through a multimedia presentation of slides and stories of the refuge. ...

Site of the Week:
Caribou: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Home to the 'Alaska Wildlife Notebook Series' publication.www.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/notebook/biggame/caribou.php - 19k - 1 Feb 2006 -

Caribou in the News -- January 26, 2006

Activists, snowmobilers face off over caribou
MSNBC - USA
SANDPOINT, Idaho - In the frozen Selkirk Mountains near the Canadian border, the last tiny herd of caribou in the Lower 48 states is fighting for survival. ...


Caribou may be fighting a losing battle in rural Idaho
Daily Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA... S
ANDPOINT, Idaho -- In the frozen Selkirk Mountains near the Canadian border, the last tiny herd of caribou in the Lower 48 states is fighting for survival. ...

Caribou in the News -- January 12, 2006

Naturalists defend wolves in caribou herd decline
Globe and Mail - Canada
Edmonton -- Naturalists are criticizing the Alberta government for killing wolves in a last-ditch attempt to save endangered woodland caribou. ...

US Lifts Longtime Drilling Ban on Alaskan Wildlife Habitat
Los Angeles Times - CA, USA... wetlands in the summer. Up to 46,000 caribou also use areas near the lake for calving and migration paths. Although many Alaskans ...

Arctic Wildlife - Arctic Studies Center (web page update, interesting site!)
Reindeer and Caribou look different, but they probably are the same species.Caribou are large, wild, elk-like animals which can be found above the ...

New to website: Project Caribou adapted to an Alaskan audience

Sue Steinacher, information/education specialist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Nome, recently worked with village teachers to adapt the Project Caribou learning resource to their unique needs.

Some of the students involved actually made presentations...to thunderous applause!...to several hundred caribou biologists from Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia

Read all about it at http://www.taiga.net/projectcaribou/share_success.html.

Caribou in the News January 3, 2006

Environmentalists look to Ottawa to save Alberta caribou
CBC Calgary - Calgary,Alberta,Canada
Alberta environmentalists are turning to Ottawa for help in trying to protect a group of endangered caribou. A coalition of groups ...


A victory for caribou, open debate
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... years from now. It's a sure bet drilling will sneak its way into other bills. But for now, the caribou can enjoy more silent nights.


Alaskan caribou have nothing to do with keeping Iowans warm
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA...
Only one is getting drilled this winter. And the caribou have nothing to worry about. ... Even a caribou knows a snow job when they see it. ...