Barren-Ground Caribou of the Northwest Territories, NWT Wildlife Sketches (3rd Edition) (GNWT, 1992)
An educational sketch of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) in the Northwest Territories describing their distribution, physical characteristics, life history, and management status across four major mainland herds and several island populations with estimated herd sizes ranging from 900,000 to 1,300,000 animals.
- Date
- 1992
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- Northwest Territories Department of Renewable Resources, Germaine Arnaktauyok, Doug Heard, George Calef, Rennie Knowlton
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Southampton Island, Coats Island, Baffin Island, Bluenose Lake, Bathurst Inlet, Beverly Lake, Kaminuriak Lake, Mackenzie River valley, Mackenzie Mountains, Arctic Archipelago, Yukon Territory, Alaska, Boothia Peninsula, Northeastern Mainland, Keewatin
- Parameters
- caribou abundance, barren-ground caribou population, caribou herds, migration patterns, calving grounds, winter range, lichen ranges, hunting, wolf predation, caribou mortality, insect parasites, winter diet
- Pages
- 6
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