Tag: caribou

December 12, 2019

Texas hunter harvests rare antlered white-tailed doe

A Texas woman recently hunted a rare antlered white-tailed doe (Odocoileus virginianus). Confirming the deer was a doe, a game warden instructed her to tag it as a buck, since...

November 22, 2019

Caribou migrate a long way — but wolves travel even farther

In the battle between wolf and caribou, who wins? This isn’t a battle for survival. This is bragging rights for long-distance travel. Researchers set out to determine which species globally...

November 14, 2019

Wild Cam: Svalbard Reindeer rebound after near extirpation

At 35 degrees Fahrenheit, it was a relatively warm day in an Arctic archipelago far north of the Norwegian mainland. But drift ice still floated in the balmy summer water...

October 28, 2019

New map illustrates caribou decline in Canada

Caribou populations are dropping all across Canada, with one herd — the South Selkirk — in British Columbia down to just three females by April 2018. Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herds...

October 17, 2019

Southern mountain caribou listed under the ESA

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service classified the recently extirpated southern mountain population of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in parts of Idaho and Washington state as endangered under the...

March 5, 2019

The March/April issue of The Wildlife Professional

The Wildlife Professional is an exclusive benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published six times annually, the magazine presents timely research news and analysis of trends in the wildlife profession....

January 18, 2019

JWM: Torngat caribou herd on the decline

Reports from hunters and Inuit groups in northern Quebec-Labrador suggested the Torngat caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herd was declining, but researchers didn’t know to what extent and why. For a study...

December 21, 2018

Airborne drones reveal movements of earthbound caribou

These reindeer can’t fly, but using airborne drones, researchers discovered lots of interesting things about how they move on the ground. In what they say is the first paper to...

December 3, 2018

Last caribou in continental U.S. sent to Canada

Idaho and Washington’s forests are home to only six remaining caribou (Rangifer tarandus), but soon they will have none at all. That’s because the caribou will soon be introduced to...

June 4, 2018

World’s largest protected boreal forest established in Alberta

Collaboration between the Tallcree Tribal Government, Nature Conservancy Canada, Syncrude Canada and the governments of Alberta and Canada has led to the establishment of the Birch River Wildland Provincial Park....