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The George River caribou are one of four subpopulations of Labrador caribou in northern Canada. The herd's range extends through Labrador and Northern Quebec (Labrador Woodland Caribou Recovery Team, 2004). [34]: 18 The George River caribou and the Leaf River caribou, R. t. caboti, migrate between forest and tundra. [29] [35]
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.
Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in northern Quebec. According to the IUCN, the conservation status of the woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is "Vulnerable (VU)"; [17] however, the Committee on status of endangered species in Canada (COSEWIC) has designated this species "threatened". [18] This caribou needs large continuous extensions of wooded ...
In 1984 it purchased Air Caribou in Fermont and also acquired Club Chambeaux outfitters which gave the company access to great fishing and caribou hunting territory in Northern Quebec. In 1986, the growth continued with the addition of a new seaplane base in Schefferville. Tremblay also purchased many other small bush operators in the 1990s, to ...
Thus the main roads of the park was developed initially by logging companies. Between 1948 and 1950 the company Consolidated Bathurst set up a road linking Saint-Donat, Lanaudière, Quebec to Saint-Guillaume-Nord and Saint-Michel-des-Saints via the lake Caribou. Then deposit Cypress arranged by Consolidated Bathurst, with fifty buildings that ...
1 Original migratory woodland caribou article concerned only two herds of caribou in Northern Quebec and Labrador 1 comment 2 Problems with taxonomy in the research community: George River herd, behaves like subspecies Barren-ground R. t. groenlandicus but is subspecies Woodland caribou Rangifer tarandus caribou (1961)
Historically, caribou have been cultural and traditional resources for groups of Indigenous people (i.e., the Cree, Inuit, Naskapi, etc.). [17] Sport hunting in Quebec and Labrador, on the other hand, has been banned since 2012 in Quebec and 2013 in Labrador. However, the understanding of sport hunting is different in each region.
The population of caribou within the reserve is one of the most threatened in Quebec, due to a variety of factors, such as its size, fragmentation, isolation and predation by the wolf. Although the reserve itself has an area of 434.19 km 2 (167.64 sq mi), the habitat used by the caribou extends to between 1,200 km 2 (460 sq mi) and 2,000 km 2 ...