Boreal Caribou Search Results
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A brief 2017 web feature on the herd. It is part of the Wapusk National Park website. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou Canada website. To find more related resources click...
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Geb Raygorodetsky
Cheryl Chetkiewicz
Ontario’s Far North is one of the world’s largest and most intact expanses of boreal forest and wetlands. The region has almost no industrial development today, but that could change with plans for...
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Wolf Feasibility Assessment Technical Working Group
A 2017 assessment of options for wolf control on the range of the Bathurst caribou herd. Assessment criteria include humaneness, efficiency, effectiveness, and risks. The Wolf Feasibility Assessment...
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John Boulanger
Jan Adamczewski
A 39-page academic paper from 2016 designed to help assess the impact of hunting on barren-ground caribou herds, based on the population size and trend of a given herd.
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Tara Russell
Danielle Pendlebury
Alison Ronson
This document is a ground-level look at boreal woodland caribou in northeastern Alberta: their status, their habitat, the pressures they face, and what is needed for their recovery in this province...
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T. Hayek
M.R. Stanley Price
J.G. Ewen
N. Lloyd
Amit Saxena
A. Moehrenschlager
Abstract: In the face of declining population trends in western Canada, there is an urgent need to consider interventionist approaches to assist caribou population recovery until landscapes are...
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Abstract The concept of biodiversity – the phenotypic and genotypic variation among organisms – is central to conservation biology. There is growing recognition that biodiversity does not exist in...
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Karine Pigeon
Megan Hornseth
Doug MacNearney
Laura Finnegan
We used GPS data from caribou and wolves, field data on human and wildlife use of seismic lines and pipelines, vegetation heights extracted from LiDAR, non-invasive fecal DNA collections, and a suite...
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Bathurst Caribou Range Plan Working Group
A long 2016 document that was used as background for the development of the Bathurst Herd Range Plan. It includes a report from an Indigenous knowledge workshop on the herd. It also contains maps of...
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Doug MacNearney
Karine Pigeon
Laura Finnegan
Anthropogenic disturbance like oil and gas development is thought to negatively affect boreal caribou through displacement and degradation of habitat, and through creation of favourable conditions for...
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Wolves choose to move through linear features when available, and that by doing so they could move two to three times faster than in natural forest.
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Feedback received from stakeholders involved in existing and potential habitat restoration programs in Northeast British Columbia’s (NE BC) boreal caribou ranges indicate there is a need for the...
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A web page with a variety of other resources centred on the link between the people of Gjoa Haven (Nunavut) and caribou. Resources on the page range from academic papers to a hand-drawn ink calendar...
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Laura Finnegan
Bryan Macbeth
Doug MacNearney
Karine Pigeon
Terry Larsen
Helen Schwantje
Susan Kutz
Woodland caribou are in decline across their range and although the proximate cause of decline is unsustainable rates of predation, health is increasingly recognised as a factor that may contribute to...
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Laura Finnegan
Doug MacNearney
Gord Stenhouse
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November
2016
This presentation by Dr. Laura Finnegan explores caribou response to oil and gas activities.
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Mathieu Leblond
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Steeve Côté
Background: Freshwater lakes and rivers of the Northern Hemisphere have been freezing increasingly later and thawing increasingly earlier during the last century. With reduced temporal periods during...
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Noor Johnson
Carolina Behe
Finn Danielsen
Eva-Maria Krummel
Scot Nickels
Peter Pulsifer
This review of community-based monitoring (CBM) in a changing Arctic is based on a multi-year initiative launched in 2012 as a task under the “Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks” (SAON), a network...
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Mary Gamberg
Christine Cuyler
Xiaowa Wang
Two caribou populations in West Greenland were sampled and the kidneys, liver and muscle analyzed for contaminants, including aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, selenium and zinc...
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Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada
The 2016 assessment report on barren-ground caribou prepared by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Species in Canada (COSEWIC). It is a long, thorough and quite technical overview. It resulted...
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William Tyson
Trevor Lantz
Natalie Ban
Resource Date:
November
2016
Abstract The Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) in the western Canadian Arctic is experiencing environmental changes that affect subsistence harvesting practices and are of concern to local...