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.