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Article: Once-mighty caribou herds dwindle as climate warms.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- October 5, 2009
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Byline: Charles J. Hanley Associated Press
ON THE PORCUPINE RIVER TUNDRA, Yukon Territory u Here on the endlessly rolling and tussocky terrain of northwest Canada, where man has hunted caribou since the Stone Age, the vast antlered herds are fast growing thin. And itAEs not just here.
Across the tundra 1,000 mile to the east, CanadaAEs Beverly herd, numbering more than 200,000 a decade ago, can barely be found today.
Halfway around the world in Siberia, the biggest aggregation of these migratory animals, of the dun-colored herds whose sweep across the ArcticAEs white canvas is one of natureAEs matchless wonders, has shrunk by hundreds of ...