Biologists study smaller caribou herds

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — With a population so small that an avalanche could wipe it out, the mountain caribou is, perhaps, the most endangered large mammal alive in North America.
Researchers like Panhandle National Forest biologist Tim Layser are tracking the estimated 46 caribou that roam the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho and northeastern Washington [...]

Police to watch drop-in centre clients closely

Up to six officers a day will patrol the area in response to concerns from nearby private elementary school
Rob Shaw, Times Colonist
Published: Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Victoria police say they’ll “set the tone” for public order at the city’s newly opened homeless drop-in shelter by dedicating a team of officers to constantly patrol the neighbourhood.
Numerous Victoria [...]

Another Cross-Canada Trip

In a previous post I started to name a few log distance car-free travelers who have inspired me. The post is not yet finished, and I have yet to make mention of Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison.
While I was at BFC in Montana I came across a book titled “Walking The Big Wild.” In it [...]

Goodbye, Caribou?

An iconic Canadian species on the decline
Caribou have been a crucial food source for Canada’s northern indigenous people from time immemorial. Now their population is dwindling at an alarming rate — with many herds declining by as much as 70 per cent in a decade. Much of the blame has been pinned on improved hunting [...]

Proposed pipeline poses threat to caribou: biologists

Wildlife managers need to figure out how to protect declining caribou herds if the proposed Mackenzie Valley gas project goes ahead, the Joint Review Panel was told during a hearing in Inuvik Monday.
The proposed 1,200-kilometre pipeline, which would carry gas from the Beaufort Delta region to northern Alberta, would cut through the middle of the [...]

Protecting a ‘vital’ link in the Arctic food chain

The Beverly and Qamanirjuaq barren ground caribou herds have roamed Canada’s Arctic and northern prairies for thousands of years, but little is still known about these large antlered mammals.
And it is this lack of hard information, especially about how many still exist, that troubles some when it comes to the topic of allowing proposed uranium [...]

Uranium-drilling proposal hits a nerve in the North

WINNIPEG — A proposal by a Canadian mineral company to test-drill for uranium in an environmentally sensitive and remote part of the Northwest Territories, the Upper Thelon Basin, has triggered alarm bells among local native communities, environmentalists and ecotourism operators who see this as the first step toward eventual full-fledged and potentially damaging uranium mining.
The [...]

Opposition mounts to N.W.T. uranium project

A proposal by Ur-Energy to explore for uranium south of the Thelon Game Sanctuary in the Northwest Territories is meeting with growing opposition from local residents.
Ur-Energy has applied for an exploration permit to drill 20 holes at Screech Lake, about 250 kilometres northeast of Lutselk’e and nine kilometres south of the Thelon Game Sanctuary, which [...]

Premier Responds to Caribou Call

Grade 4 students from St. Joseph school in Guelph received a response from Premier Dalton McGuinty about the letters and drawings they sent him urging the provincial government to protect caribou and the boreal forest.
The students, who have been learning about Canadian wildlife, were asked by the wildlife group The Wildlands League to draw the [...]

Permanent Drill Ban Sought For Alaskan Park

Los Angeles, CA (AHN) - Legislation has been forwarded calling for the permanent ban on oil drilling at an Alaskan wildlife refuge. If approved, the legislation will cover around 1,235,500 acres of land along the Alaskan coast as protected wilderness.
Wildlife campaigners are banking on the Democrat-led Congress to approve the move, which has been denied [...]