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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 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 ...
Map of Trans-Taiga Road in Quebec The Trans-Taiga Road ( French : Route Transtaïga ) is an extremely remote wilderness road in northern Quebec , Canada . It is 582 kilometres (362 mi) long to Centrale Brisay and another 84 kilometres (52 mi) along the Caniapiscau Reservoir , all of it unpaved.
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.
Parc national de la Gaspésie borders the reserve to the west and the free territory borders the reserve to the east where part of the reserve is inside the park. This geographical location, on the outskirts of a protected territory where only the Gaspé Peninsula is not subject to the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. forest and wildlife ...
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.
Jacques-Cartier National Park is located in the Laurentian Mountains along the Jacques-Cartier River valley, to the west of Quebec Route 175. [7] Jacques-Cartier is a 30 minutes drive from Québec City. [8] Grands-Jardins National Park is located to the northeast of the park, while the Laurentian Wildlife Reserve is located to the north.
Nord-du-Québec (French pronunciation: [nɔʁ d͜zy kebɛk]; English: Northern Quebec) is the largest, but the least populous, of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada. Spread over nearly 14 degrees of latitude, north of the 49th parallel, the region covers 860,692 km 2 (332,315 sq mi) on the Labrador Peninsula , making it ...