Tuesday, October 31, 2006

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 ...

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

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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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

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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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

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 ...