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Caribou News July 9, 2008

2008-07-09T09:26:00.000-07:00

WWF Canada - Sponsored Projects - Increasing calf survival in a ...
In addition to increasing the size of the Chisana Herd population immediately, ... assist other conservation efforts for the woodland caribou across Canada. ...

Drilling for oil in Alaska would be a waste of resources
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com - Jackson,MI,USA
Disturbing the area of the reserve in which caribou find their calving grounds is certainly enough to bother them. When I say bother, I mean interrupt their ...
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Bipartisan effort can get America off foreign oil
Pueblo Chieftain - Pueblo,CO,USA
Not only that, we will upset the migratory routes of a few thousand caribou. Of course, the caribou don’t worry about the price of gasoline, but it would be ...
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Past time to drill offshore and in ANWR
Ventura County Star - Camarillo,CA,USA
We are protecting everything from the caribou to, I am sure, some obscure insect. The only thing we are not protecting is the American worker and his family ...
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Caribou News June 2008

2008-06-30T16:15:00.000-07:00

Good for species - and business
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Woodland caribou, a threatened species, are losing range at a rate of 34 kilometres a decade. Yet the Ontario Forestry Coalition denies the peer-reviewed ...

Technology offers many solutions
Montgomery Advertiser - Montgomery,AL,USA
Elevated pipelines in Alaska allow caribou and polar bears to roam freely. Even oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico survived the might of Hurricane Katrina. ...
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The Truth About ANWR Drilling
Heritage.org - Washington,DC,USA
Don’t you think that the Caribou really hate that drilling? Hey, this bear seems to really hate the pipeline near Prudhoe Bay, which accounts for 17% of US ...

Reader views: Should Congress lift its moratorium on offshore oil ...
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
Let's quit worrying about the caribou and worry about the people who can't afford to go to work due to the price of gas. The caribou will continue to ...

Environmentalists, Congress foil energy: 2 letters
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
They said the caribou would not survive it. Yet caribou now thrive right next to the pipeline. Even if we had the oil, we haven’t built a refinery in the ...

Bateman nature prints support Ontario Parks research

Sault Star - Sault Ste-Marie,Ontario,Canada

They depict wildlife in provincial parks: a woodland caribou in Woodland Caribou Provincial Park, a polar bear in Polar Bear Provincial Park, a common loon ...

Why does Kevin Drum hate caribou?
By Gadfly(Gadfly)
Uhh, Kevin, 123000 caribou of the Porcupine herd whose summer calving grounds would be disturbed would disagree strenuously. Personally, I'd look at ANWR as a bargaining chip. I don't have much interest in drilling there, ...
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Oilsands watchdog calls for more protected area in northern Alberta
CBC.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Such protection is needed, the report says, to stop the decline of old-growth forests, woodland caribou, black bear, moose and other species in the ...
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Worry for jobs getting in way of Endangered Species Act ...
Daily Miner and News - Kenora,Ontario,Canada
“The real issue is around woodland caribou, but that’s so rarely stated,” reflects Brian MacLaren of Thunder Bay Field Naturalists. “What’s interesting for ...
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Chewin’ the fat — literally — while living in the Arctic
Daily Gleaner - Fredericton,New Brunswick,Canada
I loved watching AND eating caribou while I was there. Some days it was given to me in boxes, chopped into steaks and roasts, ready for cooking; ...
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Protect more wilderness
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
... other jurisdictions to ensure that the large stretches of intact Boreal forest, which woodland caribou depend upon for their survival, are also protected.
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Want to Lower Oil Prices? Try Drilling Oil, Not Grilling Oil ...
North Star Writers Group - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
One reason the Democrats and John McCain give for not drilling is to protect the caribou. That’s laughable. Ever been to Alaska? Herds of caribou saunter ...
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The great caribou crash: article by Ed Struzik

2008-05-27T17:01:00.000-07:00

The great caribou crash:
Climate change after the last Great Ice Age killed many of the large mammals of the Arctic, like the wooly mammoth and the American lion.
That may be a cautionary tale for the caribou

by Ed Struzik
Edmonton Journal
May 4, 2008

In the summer of 1996, biologist Frank Miller was flying along the coast of Bathurst Island searching for Peary caribou, an animal found only in the High Arctic of Canada, when he spied a dark spot on the sea ice.

Assuming it might be a small herd migrating to a nearby island, he instructed the pilot to go in for a closer look. Seconds later, he could see that these animals were not the caribou he was looking for. They were muskoxen, shaggy prehistoric-looking animals that survived the last Great Ice Age.

The circle of animals didn't bolt as they normally do when an aircraft hovers nearby. So Miller got the pilot to land a few hundred metres away. Even as he approached on foot, the herd didn't flinch. Try as he did to figure out why, Miller couldn't come up with an answer. As he moved closer, it dawned on him -- they were all dead.

The animals were frozen stiff and leaning against each other like statues that had been knocked over against each other by the wind.

"It was one of the most strange and gruesome things I'd ever seen as a biologist," the Edmonton-based researcher recalls.

"They were probably on their last legs and starving when they headed out across the sea ice searching for better food conditions on another island. But they didn't have the energy to get through the deep snow. So when they tried to dig down and discovered there was nothing there but sea ice, they just gave it up.

"The snow then melted and eventually hardened around their bellies. That's why some of them were still standing upright after they had died."

In the weeks that followed, Miller saw plenty of the succulent saxifrage flowers that Peary caribou feed on, but precious few animals and not a single calf at that time of year.

What he did discover with alarming regularity were the carcasses of caribou and muskoxen strewn across the tundra. By the time Miller completed his study that summer, he had counted just 300 live animals, a small fraction of what he had expected to see. When the die-off finally ended two years later, almost 98 per cent of the caribou that were on the south-central Queen Elizabeth Islands three years earlier were gone.

Overall, Peary caribou did not fare well in the last half of the 1990s. The High Arctic population is in such deep trouble now that the Committee on the Status of Endangered Species in Canada has recommended the Peary caribou remain on the endangered list.

The Peary, however, is not the only population of caribou in North America on the decline. Since the mid- to late-1980s, many of the great herds in North America have been in a free fall.

The Bathurst herd in the Central Arctic numbered 472,000 in 1986. Today, it is down to 128,000. The Cape Bathurst herd had 17,500 animals in 1992. Now there are no more than 1,800. Over in Alaska, the Yukon and Northwest Territories, the Porcupine caribou herd has declined from 178,000 animals in 1989 to the 123,000 biologists counted the last time they were able to do a comprehensive census.

In places like the south-central coast of the Canadian Arctic, there are so few animals left that arecovery may never happen.

Not only is this threatening the future of the lucrative sports hunt in the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, it also threatens to strike at the heart and soul of Inuit, Gwich'in, Dene and Métis cultures.

In most communities, the measure of a hunter is judged by his skill in killing enough animals to feed not only his family but other members of the community who may not be healthy or old enough to go out on the land. A single caribou also saves a family $500 to $1,500 that they might otherwise have to spend on store-bought meat.

"It will have a large impact on the people because it's one of the main things you put on the dinner table," Paul Voudrach, chairman of the Tuktoyaktuk hunters and trappers' committee, said recently when a large area of caribou habitat in the western Arctic was declared off-limits to hunters.

"People tell me they don't like it, but I tell them it's their grandchildren they should be thinking about."

No one knows what exactly is going on with caribou. Climate change, overhunting, human activities and industrial development are all likely playing a role. So perhaps are contaminants that are creeping into the animals' food supply.

"But one thing that is certain," says Anne Gunn, a biologist with 30 years of caribou research behind her, "we cannot afford to dither, given the rate of changes we are unleashing across the Arctic regions. In addition to the roads, pipelines, mines and other things we have built, or plan to build on caribou habitat, global warming is already threatening the future of these animals.

Collapses in caribou populations are nothing new.

In the 1.6 million years the animals have roamed the circumpolar Arctic, there have been countless ebbs and flows in the numbers.

Back in the late 1970s, for example, there were so few animals remaining in the Qamanirjuak herd on the barrenlands of what is now west-central Nunavut that scientists were urging the Inuit to stop hunting them.

Then they watched with amazement and some disbelief as the numbers went from a low of 39,000 in 1980 to 230,000 in 1983, 260,000 in 1987 and then 496,000 the last time the animals were counted in 1994.

Part of the problem back then, as it is to a lesser extent now that survey techniques have improved, is finding enough animals to get an accurate estimate of how many caribou there are on the range. Even a good count in a year when weather and migratory animals cooperate, has a possibility of error of plus or minus 10 per cent. In other less favourable cases, it can be as high as 20 per cent.

The size of the range and the herds is simply too big to get a more accurate count economically.

Then there's always the possibility that a migration route or calving ground site has shifted before or during a census. Theoretically, that could increase the plus and minus percentages to much higher levels.

Scientists, however, have come to realize that the biggest reason for these ebbs and flows lie in a complex relationship between the caribou's ability to find food and its ability not to be food.

That relationship, Gunn suggests, is set to the rhythm of weather and climate.

Put simply, runs of cold, dry winters with less snow tend to favour caribou because there is little to slow them down and sap their energy while they're on the move or being chased by wolves. Less snow, especially the kind that is dense and hard-packed, also makes it easier for them to dig down to the vegetation they need in order to survive.

Runs of warm, wet winters, on the other hand, can be brutal for the opposite reasons. Not only is there a possibility that the snow will be deep during the long migration to the calving grounds, thawing and melting can cause some of it to ice over.

If those winters are followed by hot, dry summers that favour parasites, biting flies and fires that destroy nutritious lichen, the results can be catastrophic.

No one knows how weather can affect caribou more than Miller.

The die-off of 1996 wasn't the first time he observed a decline in the High Arctic population. He saw almost the exact scenario play itself out when he went up in 1974.

Initially, Miller was concerned that he may have missed something or done something wrong that summer. A survey 13 years earlier suggested there were as many as 26,000 animals in the High Arctic and as many as 4,000 in the area he was surveying.

Only when he searched through the meteorological records for clues to what might have happened did he come up with an explanation.

Those records showed that the freezing rain that occurred in fall of 1973 was followed by heavy snow in winter and recurring periods of thawing and freezing the following spring. As a result, much of the Queen Elizabeth Islands had been transformed into a giant, snow-covered skating rink. The ice was likely so thick in most places the animals often couldn't get through to the vegetation. Those that were successful probably spent more energy than they received.

Anne Gunn says no one should be surprised that a warmer Arctic may not be good for caribou.

Many of the large mammals of the Arctic, she notes, -- the wooly mammoth, Yukon horses, Alaskan camels, short-faced bears and American lions -- all died off during the 8,500 years the climate began warming after the last Great Ice Age ended.

Now those animals that are left are adapting to another period of warming that began 150 years ago when the Mini Ice Age ended around 1850. That natural warming is now being intensified by the emission of greenhouse gases.

Caribou, Gunn adds, likely survived that cycle of warming by dispersing and adapting to new habitats. That's why there are distinct sub-species today living in the forests, the mountains, the mainland tundra and the High Arctic.

What makes the future a potentially grim one for caribou, says Gunn, is the roads, pipelines, cutlines, mines and other human developments that are shrinking the size and the quality of the habitat these animals can move in and out from during weather events.

More important, it's encroaching on the calving grounds that are so critical for population growth.

"We still don't understand the relationship to calving grounds and caribou," says Gunn. "But everything we've learned over the years tells us that it is absolutely critical."

Weather isn't always the culprit when caribou numbers fall.

Back in 1980, when Gunn conducted a survey of caribou on Prince of Wales, Somerset and Russell islands along the south-central coast of the Arctic, she estimated a relatively healthy population of about 6,000. But when she went back 15 years later to count them again, there were so few animals left that her estimate of 100 was more hopeful than a reflection of what was actually there.

Try as she, Miller and others did in the years that followed, they had a difficult time figuring out what had happened. There was no evidence that weather was responsible. Nor was there any sign that muskoxen, which were on the rise at the time, had out-competed caribou for the limited supply of food. In fact, the diet of the muskox is quite different from that of caribou.

Unlikely as it was that the caribou moved en masse to another territory, the only other explanation was that humans hunted them down to such a low number that wolves and other natural factors prevented a recovery.

"It really could have been the sum of a lot of inconsequential things," says Gunn. "The fact is no one was monitoring the situation to see what was going on."

That wolves were part of the equation is no surprise. More than any other predator in the Arctic, wolves depend on caribou for their survival.

What makes this particular relationship an interesting one is the possibility that these wolves, which were already doing well with rising muskoxen numbers on the same range, developed a specialized means of hunting down their prey.

Inuit wildlife officer Joe Ashevak raised that prospect when he found the carcasses of 25 dead caribou strewn along a 15-kilometre stretch of the Garry River. Nine of the carcasses were located under a cliff. Like aboriginal hunters in North America, these wolves may have maximized their kills by chasing them over the edge.

Anne Gunn says there are lessons to be learned from the complacency that characterizes past management practices. The first is that more needs to be done to identify and understand the causes of declines so that conservation measures can be taken before it's too late.

Second, she says, the Inuit must also be directly involved in survey efforts and other studies so that they can buy into a strategy that might require them hunting less animals.

Not doing this in the past continues to haunt biologists and wildlife managers all across the North.

Ten years after the last major die-off of Peary caribou ended in 1998, the Inuit of the Arctic still don't believe the animal is in trouble and they continue to resist the proposal to keep the Peary on the endangered list.

Both federal and territorial government are also partly to blame. Not only do they not keep records of caribou kills in most aboriginal communities, they have also been reluctant to come up with funding to support the surveys that are needed to identify problems.

Caribou scientist Don Russell says there are other things that can be done ensure that the great caribou herds will be around in the future.

The former Canadian Wildlife Service scientist in the Yukon is now heading up CARMA, a joint effort by university scientists, government scientists and managers, industry, and community organizations to co-ordinate caribou research and monitoring throughout the world. That research, he says, could be used to identify and react to problems

before it is too late to do anything about them.

Russell is also hoping that the data CARMA collects will help wildlife managers better identify and protect those areas which provide caribou with the food they need to get through winter and those areas which cows and calves can escape to when insect harassment is at its worst.

"Here in the Yukon side of the border, we've done a pretty good job identifying and protecting those areas," he says. "We've created Ivvavik and Vuntut National parks and a special conservation area east of there under the Inuvialuit land claim.

"But the herd's calving and post-calving range in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska could still be opened up to oil and gas development if the energy industry gets its way. All the research that's been done indicates that this is one of the most important habitats for the herd."

Like Gunn, Russell warns that Canada cannot afford to be complacent now that industry is moving into the North to exploit oil and gas, diamonds and uranium in and around critical caribou habitat.

"We've seen continental-wide declines occur before during the First and the Second World Wars and again in the 1970s," says Russell. "But this time, for a variety of obvious reasons, the declines could be steeper and the recoveries much slower if they occur at all."

Caribou News May 20, 2008

2008-05-20T10:28:00.000-07:00

Forestry endangered by species act: OFIA; Act poses 'single ...
Timmins Daily Press - Timmins,Ontario,Canada
The association believes broad areas of forest may become protected as caribou habitat. As a result, the forest industry would face a severe reduction in ...
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State's largest caribou herd falls by 20 percent
Fort Mills Times - Fort Mill,SC,USA
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — State biologists say the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, the state's largest, shrank by 20 percent between 2003 and 2007. ...
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Democrats introduce bill aimed at boosting polar bear protection
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Fairbanks,AK,USA
Louie Gohmert said those who oppose opening ANWR fail to take into account that caribou on the North Slope consider hot oil an aphrodisiac, ...
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Dramatic installation contributes to Alaska art
Anchorage Daily News (subscription) - Anchorage,AK,USA
The six stylized gray plastic caribou are suspended by cables to form a graceful arch from floor to ceiling. They fill the room in an inviting arrangement ...
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State's largest caribou herd shrinking
Anchorage Daily News (subscription) - Anchorage,AK,USA
By KYLE HOPKINS Alaska's largest caribou herd shrank by more than 20 percent between 2003 and 2007, according to a new count from the state Department of ...
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Caribou in the News (April-May)

2008-05-15T10:18:00.000-07:00

Global warming tied to Arctic caribou decline
The Province - Vancouver,BC,Canada
flying along the coast of Bathurst Island searching for Peary caribou, found only in the High Arctic of Canada, when he spied a dark spot on the sea ice. ...
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Caribou, not oil: Biologist tracks herd for the cause
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Kristina Lindgren The caribou might be majestic and the ancient Gwich'in people dependent on them for survival, but when it comes to the oil under the ...
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Global warming linked to caribou-calf mortality
Penn State Live - PA,USA
University Park, Pa. -- A team of scientists has provided, for the first time, a detailed map of how the building blocks of chromosomes, the cellular ...
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“Trophic mismatch” killing Greenland caribou
Nunatsiaq News - Iqaluit,Nunavut,Canada
Caribou calves are dying more frequently in West Greenland because of climate change, says a new study. Eric Post, a biology professor from Penn State ...

Chisana Caribou on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Rare sighting of a few members of the Chisana Caribou herd, a small group which crosses the Alaska Hwy. Spring and Autumn just north of kluane Lake, ...
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Alberta suspends use of strychnine to kill wolves near caribou ...
The Canadian Press - EDMONTON
EDMONTON — Alberta has suspended its use of deadly strychnine to kill wolves near a threatened caribou herd and is reviewing the use of the poison to ...
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Caribou Rosemary and Partridgeberry Stew
By Le Chef Secret(Le Chef Secret)
The sharpness of the partridgeberries balances out the sweetness of the vegetables and the earthy flavour of the rosemary goes well with the caribou. The recipe calls for the potatoes to be in the stew but I always like mine roasted on ...
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Biologists study smaller caribou herds
LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA
AP - April 27, 2008 5:24 PM ET COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - A group of scientists are studying a small herd of mountain caribou that make their home in ...
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Alberta govt. suspends wolf-poisoning program
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
Provincial officials argue wolves are the biggest threat to caribou populations and will continue to shoot the predators from helicopters in the Little ...
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ANWR drilling benefits Americans
Minnesota Daily - Minneapolis,MN,USA
The environmental lobbyists pressured President Bill Clinton to veto ANWR legislation in the '90s, citing risks to Caribou population and native Alaskan ...
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Pushing ANWR now
Anchorage Times - Anchorage,AK,USA
The interviews are invariably accompanied by footage of a large herd of caribou, but what they don't mention is that the caribou scene is obviously in the ...
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Development ensnaring our wildlife
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
And so, in 1984, an estimated 10000 caribou drowned crossing the Caniapiscau River where they had always crossed. That year they found only water without ...
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Global Warming Linked to Caribou-Calf Mortality
Fewer caribou calves are being born and more of them are dying in West Greenland as a result of a warming climate.
Wild Biology News - http://www.wildbiology.com/

Caribou News April 3, 2008

2008-04-03T11:15:00.000-07:00

The Last Hunters
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
Subsisting largely on the Porcupine Caribou Herd, the Gwich'in claim they're
fighting Big Oil and Congress to preserve the very essence of their people: ...
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The Last Hunters

Grey ghosts; Locals fear caribou herds falling victim to the coyote
Western Star - Corner Brook,Newfoundland and Labrador,Canada
The scale of the place, along with the easy foraging, has made the area a snowy paradise for woodland caribou. The scene is almost complete. It’s all there, ...
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The coyote's invasion and the caribou's decline
Western Star - Corner Brook,Newfoundland and Labrador,Canada
Dramatic declines in the province's caribou population in recent years has

caused alarm for outdoor enthusiasts and government alike. ...
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Caribou Plan Doomed to Failure

VOCM - St. John’s,NL,Canada
A person who spent over 30 years in the bush as a wildlife officer is worried about
the state of the caribou population. Don Sutton says they noticed a ...
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Mooin, The Bear’s Child
By sipsis
Then Caribou stepped up and, thrusting her long antlers into the crack, she tried
to pry the stone loose, but only broke off one of her antlers. It was no use. In the
end, all gave up. They could not move the stone. ...
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Fur flying over animal control tactics
Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada
A grander goal - often overlooked - is to find a kinder way of keeping the wolves in
this province from driving woodland caribou to extinction. ...
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Caribou News March 17, 2008

2008-03-17T10:51:00.000-07:00

Province says wolf sterilization program not a done deal
Rocky Mountain Outlook - Canmore,Alberta,Canada
It would have less impact on regional wolf populations and allow one to selectively target packs affecting species of interest, such as caribou. ...
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Life Going On
Walrus Magazine - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
by Emilie Cameron It’s not uncommon to see a whole caribou carcass on the kitchen floor at the Niptanatiaks. This time, I help Grace cut the meat into cubes ...
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South Lee Mailbag: Drill for oil in US
The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA
The Caribou herds have increased in size as well. We've also been told that we have 131 billion barrels of oil and 1000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas ...
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The Caribou Hunter
Walrus Magazine - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
In the spring, when Michael had applied for his caribou hunting licence, I was curious and felt a challenge. I asked if I could go with him. ...
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Two girls celebrate tradition on successful caribou hunt
Tundra Drums - Anchorage,AK,USA
They first had to obtain caribou tags from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. People in the workplace and community members were called to let them ...

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Washington poacher gets jail time
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
The two men were accused of illegally killing, then wasting the meat of two sub-legal Dall sheep, a moose, a brown bear and a caribou over a 10-day period. ...
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Wildlife cops target country food smugglers
Nunatsiaq News - Iqaluit,Nunavut,Canada
Don't take fish or caribou out of Nunavik unless you can prove that you caught them yourself. This the gist of a recent warning from Quebec to residents of ...
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Caribou News March 2007

2008-03-10T16:51:00.001-07:00

Sidney company proposes giant wind farm in caribou habitat
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
VANCOUVER - An alpine wilderness in northern BC that's critical habitat to a herd of threatened mountain caribou is being proposed as the site for hundreds ...
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Proposed wind farm cited as threat to caribou
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
An alpine wilderness in northern BC that's critical habitat to a herd of threatened mountain caribou is being proposed as the site for hundreds of ...
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Committee fighting to save Northern Peninsula pristine wilderness ...
Western Star - Corner Brook,Newfoundland and Labrador,Canada
Given the declining caribou herds in the province, this wintering and calving ground must continue to be protected, he said. “The construction of forest ...
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Caribou News February 18 2008

2008-02-18T17:14:00.001-08:00

Land Use Plan could save caribou
Northern News Services (subscription) - Yellowknife,Northwest Territories,Canada
DEH CHO - New research findings show that unless the Dehcho Land Use Plan is implemented woodland caribou populations could be lost in the southern portion ...
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Innu hunters vow return to disputed caribou area
CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - St. John's,Newfoundland and Labrador,Canada
A group of Innu hunters in Labrador is planning to hunt caribou in an area that government officials say is off limits. The RCMP recently seized seven ...
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Caribou News February 11, 2008

2008-02-11T11:35:00.001-08:00

Plan only goes part way
Western Star - Corner Brook,Newfoundland and Labrador,Canada
The government has heard the warnings of a potential collapse of the province’s native caribou population from outdoors enthusiasts, outfitters and wildlife ...
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On frozen pond
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
NORTHWEST RIVER (CP) — Two rare and historically significant caribou coats painted by Innu artisans in the late 18th century have been returned to ...
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Caribou pose a $15-million problem
Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
The Newfoundland and Labrador government will spend $15.3 million to study the rapid decline of caribou. In 1996, there were more than 96000 caribou in the ...
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Smart wildlife programs let both animals and people thrive
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
In the 1980s, BC conducted wolf killing programs to protect moose, elk, black-tailed deer and caribou. And, as late as last year, the BC government planned ...
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No Roads, No Regrets
Washington Post - United States
We walked along ancient animal trails, over spongy tussocks, across shivery streams, in the wake of bear, wolf and caribou tracks. A rainbow halo encircled ...
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NL gov't to spend $15.3 million on strategy to halt caribou herd ...
The Canadian Press -
Environment Minister Charlene Johnson says the money will be used to build on earlier efforts to better understand and mitigate the drop in woodland caribou ...
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Caribou in the News January 30, 2008

2008-01-30T10:28:00.000-08:00

Research means cold cash
Houston Chronicle - United States
"You get a caribou guy talking to a caribou guy and the cultural differences almost

disappear," he said. Brian Person, a wildlife biologist with the North ...
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Alta. development threatens caribou habitat: group
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
The Alberta government is letting industrial activity intrude on the sensitive habitat of a
threatened caribou herd, says a conservation group. ...
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Wolf-Protecting Oil Drilling Opponent Rep. George Miller Stands ...
The National Center for Public Policy Research - Washington,DC,USA
But then we have to remember that the point of the predator control program is not to save
humans, but moose and caribou, animals so near and dear to the ...
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A critical shield against global warming
Globe and Mail - Canada
Canada's boreal is also home to some of the world's largest populations of grizzly
and polar bears, wolves, woodland and barren-ground caribou Future: ...
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Caribou News Dec 10, 2007

2007-12-10T10:54:00.000-08:00

Grey River caribou number in decline: aboriginal people
CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - St. John's,Newfoundland and Labrador,Canada
Aboriginal people on Newfoundland's south coast are worried that coyotes
are causing a drastic drop in Grey River caribou numbers. ...
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A green Christmas, alas, for catalogues
Media Life Magazine - USA
This year alone, eight million tons of trees, some from the very forests where
that favorite Christmas animal, the reindeer, aka the Caribou, cavorts, ...
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Kivalliq News Nunavut News/North
Northern News Services (subscription) - Yellowknife,NWT,Canada
The Government of Nunavut will be drafting a Caribou Management Strategy
over the coming year to deal with the animals' shrinking population and an influx ...
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Roast Caribou
4 lb Caribou roast. MARINADE: 1/2 c.
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Caribou Stroganoff
By RecipeFeed.com
1 1/2 lb Caribou steak or boneless. -stewing meat (cut in -1/2" strips) 1/2 c Flour. 1/2 ts Salt. 1/2 lb Mushrooms, chopped. 2 sm Onions, chopped. 1 cl Garlic; minced. 3 tb Lard or bacon fat. 1 tb Worcestershire sauce ...
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World Outfitters seeks caribou colossus
ReportonBusiness.com - Canada
The global juggernaut of consolidation that has been rolling through steel,
mining, technology and other sectors now has an unlikely new target: caribou ...
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University of Saskatchewan Research - Discovery @ U of S: Explore: 100 yrs of Innovation

2007-12-04T16:54:00.000-08:00

University of Saskatchewan Research - Discovery @ U of S: Explore: 100 yrs of Innovation: "Naomi Carriere - Master Student in Biology A Master's student in Biology, Naomi Carriere is looking at traditional aboriginal knowledge of the woodland caribou and modern-day scientific knowledge in an effort to help preserve the species. Flash Video (Runs: 2:59)"

Caribou in Canada - Canadian Geographic Magazine: In-depth

2007-11-30T14:59:00.000-08:00

Online article on caribou from the quality outreach people at CG...

Caribou in Canada - Canadian Geographic Magazine: In-depth: "In-depth Caribou in Canada Across the country, caribou are struggling to survive in their ever-changing habitat. Facing a modern world, they are losing the battle."

Caribou News October 30, 2007

2007-10-30T08:58:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the birthplace of caribou jerky
Nunatsiaq News - Iqaluit,Nunavut,Canada
During a tour of the plant, Schindel is constantly tossing out current
and future product ideas: mikku, pipsi, caribou jerky, ground caribou. ...

Galaxies, caribou take readers to far-off places
Indianapolis Star - United States
Imagine spending five months following the path of a caribou herd
on the northern part of Canada near the Arctic Sea. The caribou determine
the path so ...

Caribou News Oct 23 2007

2007-10-23T10:05:00.000-07:00

Mountain Caribou Recovery Plan Unveiled
The Associated Press -
VICTORIA, British Columbia (AP) — British Columbia leaders announced a
plan Tuesday to rebuild endangered mountain caribou herds, including
protecting about ...
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BC takes steps to protect mountain caribou
Globe and Mail - Canada
Vancouver — In an effort to save a dwindling and endangered population
of mountain caribou the British Columbia government is putting nearly
400000 hectares ...
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Canadian province to set aside caribou lands
Reuters UK - UK
The province hopes the move will boost the caribou population from a current
1900 animals in 12 herds to about 2500, where it stood in 1995. ...
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Cultures and caribou explored together
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
In her study of Saskatchewan's woodland caribou, University of Saskatchewan
biology master's student Naomi Carriere is not only working toward the ...
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Questions about caribou plan
Prince George Free Press - BC, Canada
Free Press file photo The provincial government unveiled this week a plan to
protect the mountain caribou. The following is an open letter to Prince George ...
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Quinn to listen in on mountain caribou strategy
North Thompson Times - Clearwater,British Columbia,Canada
By JUNE WEBB Thompson Nicola Regional District (TNRD) director for Area B,
Steve Quinn has been invited to sit on one of six mountain caribou implementation ...
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Snowmachiner dies in collision with well casing
Anchorage Daily News (subscription) - Anchorage,AK,USA
His hunting companion, Linda Kakaruk, shot and wounded a caribou near
Mile 144.5 Glenn Highway, and together they tracked the animal to the river
and killed ...
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Woo-hoo, caribou!
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
The world's 1700 mountain caribou can chomp their lichens in peace -- Forest
Ethics and a coalition of Canadian environmental groups announced an agreement ...
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Province unveils plan to protect caribou herds
Prince George Free Press - BC, Canada
Combined with a selective cull of predators that have moved into the caribou
habitat, the plan’s target is to rebuild the population from the current 1900 ...
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Caribou News October 2, 2007

2007-10-02T09:27:00.000-07:00

Fentie failed to consult on caribou policy, says MLA
CBC North - Canada
Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie visited Old Crow in mid-September but failed to

mention a major policy change regarding the Porcupine caribou herd, ...
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First Nation 'shocked' over Dempster caribou hunting changes

CBC North - Canada
Vuntut Gwich'in First Nation leaders are demanding answers from the Yukon
government, after it lifted long-standing rules that restricted caribou hunting ...
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Caribou News September 18, 2007

2007-09-18T13:24:00.000-07:00

Technology aids quest for happy caribou
Petroleum News - USA
Both government and industry scientists acknowledge that the question

of caribou in the oil fields of the Arctic is a very complex topic. ...
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Pine beetle and mountain caribou
North Thompson Times - Clearwater,British Columbia,Canada
This week the topic was Mountain Pine Beetle, Mountain Caribou and
their primary winter food, hair lichens. Caribou biologists often
insist hair lichens are ...
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Aboriginal chief fed up with Dempster Highway caribou hunting rules
CBC North - Canada
The Porcupine Caribou Management Board's regulations bar hunters
from shooting within a 500-metre corridor on either side of the highway. ...
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Caribou News September 4, 2007

2007-09-04T09:12:00.000-07:00

As loggers cut deeper, caribou retreat into oblivion
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
The area, about 400 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, is prime habitat for woodland
caribou, which are designated by the federal and Ontario governments as ...
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Ontario Releases Plan for Woodland Caribou Signature Site
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC,Canada
TORONTO -- The Ontario government is releasing the final management
plan for the Woodland Caribou Signature Site in northwestern Ontario,
Natural Resources ...
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Porcupine Caribou Schools Program: Online Access to Guides

2007-08-29T15:57:00.000-07:00

Support Materials - Project Caribou

Recently added: a link to these Porcupine Caribou Herd resources, developed originally by the Yukon Department of Education, and an inspiration for the Project Caribou resource.

Look for the image on this page.

Caribou News August 21, 2007

2007-08-21T09:31:00.000-07:00

Astronaut Dave Williams says Caribou jerky helps him prepare for ...
Canada East - Canada
(CP) - Astronaut Dave Williams says munching on Canadian caribou jerky is a
good way to prepare for his record-breaking spacewalk Saturday outside the ...

Wildlife abundant on Alaska's Arctic tundra
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
On our way to see the oil rigs, we drove past a caribou calf that was grazing on
tundra plants beside the road. "It's a harsh world up here," cracked our ...

Caribou NewsAugust 7, 2007

2007-08-07T14:54:00.000-07:00

Businesses back caribou conservation in British Columbia
Globe and Mail - Canada
British Columbia, which has the world's last remaining mountain caribou, with
about 1900 animals in 18 separate herds, is formulating a plan to save the ...
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BC asked to save endangered caribou species
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
VANCOUVER -- The fate of the world's remaining mountain caribou
will be decided in coming weeks -- and conservationists are urging the
BC government to save ...
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Nelchina hunting permits announced
Anchorage Daily News (subscription) - Anchorage,AK,USA
By ALEX deMARBAN More than a thousand Alaskans who didn't win a coveted permit to hunt a Nelchina caribou or moose will get the chance after all. ...
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Arctic players poles apart on bears, caribou
Canada.com - Canada
The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife claims the Peary
caribou population has declined by 72 per cent since 1984. "Don't
worry about it," he ...
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Hawaii Sen. Akaka cancels Alaska visit
KPUA - HI,USA
... to recognize the concerns of the Gwich'in Indians, who worry
drilling could disrupt the calving grounds of Porcupine caribou they
depend on for food. ...
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Chisana Caribou Recovery Project
The Chisana herd is a small, genetically distinct, population of
caribou inhabiting eastcentral Alaska and southwest Yukon.
The herd summers almost entirely ...

Caribou in the News -- July 27, 2007

2007-07-27T08:23:00.000-07:00

Chisana Caribou Recovery Project
The Chisana herd is a small, genetically distinct, population of caribou
inhabiting eastcentral Alaska and southwest Yukon. The herd summers almost entirely ...

Author releases children's version of award-winning Being Caribou
Rocky Mountain Outlook - Bow Valley,Alberta,Canada
By Lynn Martel - Canmore Once upon a time there was a wildlife biologist,
his adventuresome wife and a 123000 head caribou herd. Every year, for 27000 years ...

Judge yanks permits for Nelchina hunts
Anchorage Daily News (subscription) - Anchorage,AK,USA
By ALEX DEMARBAN A Superior Court judge Friday pulled the permits of thousands
of people expecting to hunt caribou and moose in the Nelchina basin beginning ...

Post-Doctoral Fellow - Caribou Conservation Genetics
We seek a landscape ecologist or landscape geneticist with strong quantitative skills
to complement a research team examining the conservation and spatial dynamics
of Canadian boreal caribou populations. This project is a partnership ...
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Caribou art exhibit among park's centennial activities
Waterloo Record - Waterloo,Ontario,Canada
An exhibition of 45 artworks on the theme of caribou herds will debut at the Buffalo
Nations Luxton Museum Aug. 1. The exhibition, called Tuktu Prayers, ...

Caribou News July 3, 2007

2007-07-03T10:05:00.001-07:00

Outfitters sue NWT government over caribou quota cuts
CBC North - Canada
Outfitters who rely on caribou hunts for much of their business have

filed a lawsuit against the Northwest Territories government for reducing sport hunting ...
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Caribou News June 14, 2007 MORE!

2007-06-19T09:30:00.000-07:00

Chisana Caribou Herd Recovery Project & Captive
Rearing Experiment ... (PDF of a PowerPoint presentation)
Ecotype of caribou a. species of 'Special. Concern'. In Yukon.
Chisana herd is. 'Specially Protected. Wildlife' and. therefore a 'Species. at Risk' ...

Kenai Peninsula Online - Alaska NewspaperCanadians
try experiment ...
WHITEHORSE, Yukon (AP) -- The very existence of the Chisana woodland
caribou herd may depend on the success of a unique experiment under way
in southwest ...