##  [Athabasca Caribou Landscape Management Options Report](/resource/athabasca-caribou-landscape-management-options-report) 

Organization

[Athabasca Landscape Team](/organization/athabasca-landscape-team)

 

 

Resource Type

[Report](/taxonomy/term/38)

 

 

Author(s)

Athabasca Landscape Team

 

 

Original Authors

Athabasca Landscape Team

 

 

Resource Date:

May

2009

 

Page Length

115

 

 

There is insufficient functional habitat to maintain and increase current caribou distribution and population growth rates within the Athabasca Landscape area. Boreal caribou will not persist for more than two to four decades without immediate and aggressive management intervention. The Athabasca Landscape Team undertook two analyses from which it developed the management options presented in this report. The first was a rating of the relative risk to caribou persistence within each planning area and range based on a series of eight risk criteria. The second analysis conducted for each planning area or range by the Athabasca Landscape Team involved simulation modeling using ALCES®.