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Mountain caribou are uniquely adapted to live in old-growth forests. The mountain caribou diet consists of tree-dwelling lichens predominantly. They are unique in this aspect as in the far northern regions of their habitat zones, the snowpack is shallow enough that the boreal woodland caribou can paw through the snow to eat the ground-dwelling ...
For purposes of management and monitoring, caribou are subdivided into discrete herds/populations and/or designated units. In a 2011 article entitled, "Northern caribou population trends in Canada", researchers listed herds/populations including 35 northern caribou herds across the Canadian Arctic. [65]
A small number of wood buffalo is also present in the south-eastern part of the park. The Caribou Mountains reach an elevation of 1,030 m, almost 700 m higher than the surrounding area, and have a unique environment. The park is located in the hydrographic basin of the Great Slave Lake and that of the Peace River. Yates River, Whitesand River ...
Spatsizi Plateau is home to approximately 2000-2500 woodland caribou. [13] Caribou in the area tend to winter along the Stikine River, and in general were found in higher concentrations in the northern portion of the park all year. [13]
The migratory woodland caribou refers to two herds of Rangifer tarandus (known as caribou in North America) that are included in the migratory woodland ecotype of the subspecies Rangifer tarandus caribou or woodland caribou [1] [2] that live in Nunavik, Quebec, and Labrador: the Leaf River caribou herd (LRCH) [3] [4] and the George River caribou herd (GRCH) south of Ungava Bay.
This management area and the provincial park together constitute the St. Raphael Signature Site, which is recognized for its natural and recreational values. The Signature Site, covering more than 1,530 square kilometres (590 sq mi) of remote wilderness, limits development to maintain its remote character and to enhance woodland caribou habitats.
See Evolution in main page, Reindeer.Following are excerpts relating to boreal woodland caribou. Reindeer originated in a Late Pliocene North American-Beringian radiation of New World deer [Geist 1998). A frontoparietal skull fragment of Rangifer sp. from the Early Pleistocene of Omsk, Russia dates back to 2.1-1.8 Ma and suggests northern Eurasia as a center of reindeer o
According to the 2014 ABMI report all six herds of caribou including the threatened boreal and the endangered mountain caribou "have suffered annual rates of decline ranging from 4.6% to 15.2% from 1993 to 2012" in the oil sands region (OSR) as oil and gas production booms in northern Alberta. As these herds in the oil-sands region are ...