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Article: Caribou and you. (includes related articles)
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- American Forests
- Article date:
- July 1, 1995
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While the feds and their faulters argue about how to manage habitat, a remnant herd of these odd creatures struggles to survive.
A Woodland caribou nibbles lichen from the branch of an ancient Douglas-fir, its hooves making wide craters in the snow. Only 50 of its kind roam the old-growth forests of Idaho's Selkirk Mountains, the last remnants of a U.S. population hit hard by human encroachment. Depending on how state and federal agencies manage old forests, the future of woodland caribou and the entire ecosystem may be in question.
Woodland caribou once roamed the forests of every Canadian border state, but today they occupy only a tiny portion of their ...