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  2. Mountain caribou conservation - Wikipedia

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    Boreal woodland caribou are also known as southern mountain caribou, woodland caribou, and forest-dwelling caribou. 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 ...

  3. Migratory woodland caribou - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Caribou herds and populations in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Because they migrate to the tundra, both the Leaf River herd and George River herd have sometimes been included with the barren-ground caribou, but genetic and other data show them to be woodland caribou that acquired some barren-ground caribou genes early in the Holocene (see Reindeer: Taxonomy). [Notes 3]

  5. Reindeer distribution - Wikipedia

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    The revision returned the name of Arctic caribou to its original R. arcticus, with the nominate subspecies being barren-ground caribou, R. a. arcticus, and returned four western montane ecotypes to subspecies of Arctic caribou: Selkirk Mountain caribou, R. a. montanus, Rocky Mountain caribou, R. a. fortidens, Osborn's caribou, R. a. osborni ...

  6. Caribou-Speckled Mountain Wilderness - Wikipedia

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    Caribou-Speckled Mountain Wilderness is an 11,236-acre (4,547 ha) wilderness area under the jurisdiction of the White Mountain National Forest in the U.S. state of Maine. Established in 1990, the Wilderness contains an abundance of geologic features such as cliffs , slides , notches , and glacial potholes among a forest of northern hardwood trees.

  7. Woodland caribou - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Woodland caribou may refer to two North American reindeer (Rangifer ...

  8. Akami−Uapishkᵘ−KakKasuak−Mealy Mountains National Park ...

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    The federal government renewed its commitment to the park reserve in 2015, proposing "Akami−Uapishkᵘ−KakKasuak−Mealy Mountains" as the name for the country's ninth National Park Reserve. "Akami−Uapishkᵘ" is the Innu name for the area, meaning White Mountain across, while "KakKasuak" is the Labrador Inuit word for mountain. [13]

  9. Caribou–Targhee National Forest - Wikipedia

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    Caribou National Forest, the smaller and more southerly of the two, is located in southeastern Idaho, western Wyoming, and northern Utah, and has a total area of 987,221 acres (3,995 km 2). There are local ranger district offices located in Montpelier , Pocatello , and Soda Springs in Idaho.