RaNgE MaNagEMENT IN alaSka: SEwaRD PENINSUla REINDEER HERDERS ON THE FaST TRaCk

• Main Authors: Greg Finstad, Calvin Steele, Tom Gray
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Midwinter; Seward Peninsula; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.525.3391; http://reindeer.salrm.uaf.edu/resources/conference_proceedings/2006_GLCI_Abstract.pdf

movement patterns may also signal harassment by predators and intervention of herders. The use of enclosures and supplemental feeding are now being used by some reindeer herders on the Seward Peninsula to move away from extensive herding to more intensive management. Enclosures are being used to increase control of reindeer in the presence of migrating caribou. Supplemental feeding can be used in response to severe weather events such as midwinter icing or during calving when additional surveillance and nutrition may increase production. The practice of reindeer herding in Alaska is changing rapidly in response to the physical and socio-economic environment with the integration of many “cutting edge ” manage-ment technologies and the collaboration of agencies and research institutions.