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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 ...
Selkirk Mountain caribou (formerly thought to be an ecotype of woodland caribou, Rangifer tarandus caribou) was considered endangered in the United States in Idaho and Washington. R. t. pearyi is on the IUCN endangered list. The woodland caribou is highly endangered throughout its distribution. [19]
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.
Reindeer live in the far northern regions of Europe, North America, and Asia.They enjoy colder climates like tundra and boreal forests. We can find them in northern countries, which include:
The boreal woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou; but subject to a recent taxonomic revision.See Reindeer: Taxonomy), also known as Eastern woodland caribou, boreal forest caribou and forest-dwelling caribou, is a North American subspecies of reindeer (or caribou in North America) found primarily in Canada with small populations in the United States.
The reindeer or caribou [a] (Rangifer tarandus) [5] is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. [2]
Bald River Gorge Wilderness is a 3,721-acre (15 km 2) wilderness area of Cherokee National Forest that lies within Monroe County in the U.S. state of Tennessee, designated in 1984. Its elevation is 2,642 feet (805 m) above sea level. [2] [3] It is administered by the United States Forest Service.
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