Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Backlog of Caribou News...beware! Goes back to January 2011

NL to monitor caribou herds
CBC.ca
The province plans to conduct a census of the south coast caribou herds. (Canadian Press)The government of Newfoundland and Labrador plans to track the migration patterns of the south coast caribou herds. Environment Minister Ross Wiseman said a census ...
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The greening of the North: climate change shrinking tundra, says study
Montreal Gazette
Study leader Song Feng, a University of Nebraska climatologist, told Postmedia News that the iconic caribou - also known as reindeer, and featured on Canada's 25-cent coin - would be among the wildlife species affected by the changes. ...
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  Scientists probe Lake Huron for signs of pre-historic caribou hunters
Montreal Gazette
Scientists are planning a dive this spring to search for artifacts from what they believe was once a major caribou migration corridor and hunting hotspot about 10000 years ago for some of the earliest inhabitants of present-day Canada and the United ...
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  Yukon may ease Porcupine caribou hunting rules
CBC.ca
Yukon environment officials say they may ease caribou hunting restrictions along the Dempster Highway, as the latest Porcupine caribou survey shows the herd has grown by almost 50000 animals in the last decade. Yukon hunters take a caribou along the ...
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  Alaska-Canada caribou herd strongly rebounds
HeraldNet
AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A photo census indicates a caribou herd shared by Alaska and northwest Canada has grown significantly. The Alaska Department of Fish says the Porcupine Caribou Herd has grown to an estimated 169000 animals. ...
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Alaska-Canada caribou herd growing strong
Anchorage Daily News
By DAN JOLING AP A caribou herd shared by Alaska and northwest Canada has rebounded after a near one-third decline, according to a photo census announced Wednesday by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. State biologists said the Porcupine Caribou ...
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Conservatives not conserving our caribou
Edmonton Journal
The Banff caribou herd is extinct. Ten of 13 other Alberta woodland caribou herds are in decline. At least one Alberta biologist says some of the province's caribou herds are disappearing so quickly they could be gone in a decade. ...
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Labrador hunters encouraged to participate in caribou harvest survey
St. John's Telegram
Labrador hunters are encouraged to participate in the George River caribou harvest survey by submitting both the lower jawbone and licence return for any caribou killed during the 2011-12 hunting season, the provincial government announced today. ...
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Yukon Woodland Caribou | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
By nobody@flickr.com (Yellow Snow Photography)
1 of 7 of a series of caribou shots from yesterday's drive back from skiing.
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Alberta silent on status of declining caribou population
Montreal Gazette
By Hanneke Brooymans, Postmedia News February 20, 2011 10:01 PM EDMONTON — The Alberta government is refusing to release recommendations from a scientific subcommittee that studied whether woodland caribou should be designated as endangered. ...
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Anchorage Daily News
AP FAIRBANKS -- The Alaska Fortymile caribou hunt along Steese Highway is reopening now that Yukon Quest mushers are out of the way. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported there are still plenty of caribou hanging around. State game managers are also ...
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By Cher C.
Despite three years of promises to protect Ontario's threatened woodland caribou , the McGuinty government is proposing to exempt logging, mining and other industries from having to take action to protect caribou under the Endangered ...
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Warm Arctic weather threatens Alaska's caribou, Dall sheep
Alaska Dispatch
... mid-winter warming events in Alaska and across the Arctic will impact the region's native animal populations -- Western Arctic caribou and Dall sheep, ...
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Death and Taxes
Palin's also anti-caribou, in as much as that is actually possible. During her speech, she suggested the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge was more like a ...
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Hunting Alaskan caribou, part two
Othello Outlook
When it was light enough to shoot, we saw tracks in the snow — moose, caribou and red foxes — foxes that would later turn into pests. ...
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Ontario choosing development over caribou: Eco groups
Toronto Star
By Tanya Talaga Queen's Park Bureau A new provincial plan to save the caribou does nothing but appease northern mining, hydro and investment interests, ...
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BBC News
The warming climate has affected the spring migration of the Caribou, and the Gwitchin are seeing fewer Caribou than usual.
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Not much action in Fortymile caribou hunt
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
by Tim Mowry / tmowry@newsminer.com There are still lots of caribou near the Steese Highway north of Fairbanks, the hunt remains closed along the road and ...
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Hunting Alaskan caribou
Othello Outlook
While we were in Arkansas shooting in a rifle match, he began telling me about Alaskan big game hunting, especially caribou. I was curious, so I prodded him ...
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De Beers' mine plans raise caribou concerns

CBC.ca
More research is needed to determine what factors drive caribou away from mine sites, according to wildlife biologist Kim Poole. ...
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Labrador Inuit want to hunt more caribou
CBC.ca
The Nunatsiavut government of northern Labrador wants the government of Newfoundland and Labrador to change Caribou hunting rules. ...
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Natuashish Chief Concerned About Caribou Numbers
VOCM
Natuashish Chief Simeon Tshakapesh says after reading a 2010 report that estimated a drastic decline in the George River caribou herd, he is very concerned ...
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Caribou killed in protected Labrador area
Toronto Sun
By SHEENA GOODYEAR, QMI Agency At least 80 caribou have been killed in a protected region of central Labrador that's home to the last 100 or so members of ...
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Palin's caribou hunt won't be investigated
CBC.ca
Sarah Palin's recently televised caribou hunt has raised questions about whether the former Alaskan governor may have violated state regulations by taking ...
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FarmVille Winter Wonderland Animals: Caribou and Fiordland Penguin
Games.com News (blog)
The two animals are the Caribou and the Fiordland Penguin. Both are, unfortunately, premium Winter Wonderland animals that are only available to purchase ...
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Caribou Relieved as Sara Palin Announces 'No Second Season'
Spooftimes.com (satire)
Thousands of Alaskan Caribou breathed a sight of relief yesterday when local Alaskan milf Sarah Palin announced she would not be doing a second season of ...
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