(Photo by Kyle Joly/National Park Service) The Western Arctic Caribou Herd, once the biggest in Alaska, is faltering, having fallen from a high of 490,000 animals in 2003 to only 152,000 as of 2023.
A lightning strike like this one in the Ray Mountains north of the ... what he saw to officials at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The caribou, 48 adults and five calves, were lying ...
Nearly everyone agrees that Alaska’s declining caribou population is a serious problem - but there’s plenty of disagreement on how to solve it. This month, Alaska Department of Fish and Game ...
With heavily muscled bodies, skinny legs, and strong hooves that balloon to the size of dinner plates come winter, mountain caribou — the "mountain ecotype" of the woodland caribou — are well adapted ...
Rick Thoman, a climate researcher at University of Alaska Fairbanks, edited the report and said the NOAA report card also documents rapid declines in caribou herds. “Particularly the large ...
The animals, dozens of them, were dead. The pilot reported what he saw to officials at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The caribou, 48 adults and five calves, were lying in a group.