Herd size, distribution, harvest, management issues, and research priorities relevant to caribou herds in Alaska
There are presently about 960 000 caribou in 32 herds in Alaska, including 4 herds shared with Yukon and Northwest Territories. Since complete population data were last published in the mid-1980s, Alaska's caribou population has doubled in size, largely from increases in the Western Arctic and...
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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/1549 2023-05-15T14:55:01+02:00 Herd size, distribution, harvest, management issues, and research priorities relevant to caribou herds in Alaska Valkenburg, Patrick 1998-03-01 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1549 https://doi.org/10.7557/2.18.5.1549 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1549/1455 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1549 doi:10.7557/2.18.5.1549 Copyright (c) 2015 Patrick Valkenburg http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY Rangifer; Vol 18 (1998): Special Issue No. 10; 125-129 1890-6729 Rangifer population size caribou Alaska herd size info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1998 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/2.18.5.1549 2021-08-16T15:00:55Z There are presently about 960 000 caribou in 32 herds in Alaska, including 4 herds shared with Yukon and Northwest Territories. Since complete population data were last published in the mid-1980s, Alaska's caribou population has doubled in size, largely from increases in the Western Arctic and Mulchatna herds. The number of recognized herds has increased by 6, largely because of increased use of radiotelemetry to inventory small caribou herds in inaccessible areas, and transplanting caribou to unoccupied ranges. About 33 000 caribou are harvested annually in Alaska, mostly from the Western Arctic, Mulchatna, and Nelchina herds. The primary wildlife management problem in Alaska for caribou and other species is the lack of clear management authority among state and federal agencies. Research priorities include work on the influence of short-term and long-term weather trends on nutritional ecology of caribou, and predation mitigation including sterilization, translocation, and diversionary feeding of wolves during the caribou calving period. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Northwest Territories Rangifer Alaska Yukon University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Arctic Northwest Territories Yukon Rangifer 18 5 125 |
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There are presently about 960 000 caribou in 32 herds in Alaska, including 4 herds shared with Yukon and Northwest Territories. Since complete population data were last published in the mid-1980s, Alaska's caribou population has doubled in size, largely from increases in the Western Arctic and Mulchatna herds. The number of recognized herds has increased by 6, largely because of increased use of radiotelemetry to inventory small caribou herds in inaccessible areas, and transplanting caribou to unoccupied ranges. About 33 000 caribou are harvested annually in Alaska, mostly from the Western Arctic, Mulchatna, and Nelchina herds. The primary wildlife management problem in Alaska for caribou and other species is the lack of clear management authority among state and federal agencies. Research priorities include work on the influence of short-term and long-term weather trends on nutritional ecology of caribou, and predation mitigation including sterilization, translocation, and diversionary feeding of wolves during the caribou calving period. |
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