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This is a list of Hudson's Bay Company trading posts. [1]For the fur trade in general see North American fur trade and Canadian canoe routes (early).For some groups of related posts see Fort-Rupert for James Bay.
Caribou Mountains Wildland Park is a large wilderness area in northern Alberta, Canada. It is located in the Caribou Mountains, immediately west of Wood Buffalo National Park in a remote backcountry area. The closest communities in Alberta are Fort Vermilion and Garden River. It was established by the Alberta Government in 2001 under the ...
Caribou populations that are on Schedule 1 and are listed as threatened include the Boreal population in Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador. Caribou herds that are listed as endangered and are included on Schedule 1 include the Atlantic-Gaspésie caribou ...
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 ...
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 hunting by humans has a very long history and caribou/wild reindeer "may well be the species of single greatest importance in the entire anthropological literature on hunting." [ 3 ] In Greenland, wild reindeer have been hunted as a source of food, clothing, shelter, and tools by the Inuit - the indigenous peoples that populate the ...
In Canada, the Committee on Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) defined 12 "designatable units", DU, which included the above named subspecies and several ecotypes: Peary caribou DU1, the Dolphin-Union herd of barren-ground caribou DU2, mainland barren-ground (including Alaskan) caribou DU3, Labrador caribou ("eastern migratory ...
ZECs fill a much larger economic place than fishing and hunting clubs did as they also promote all types of recreational and tourism activities such as hiking, canoeing, canoe-camping, mountain-biking, rock-climbing, vacationing and cottage rental, camping, wildlife/nature observation, wild berry picking, etc. They are open to all recreational ...