Short-Term Impacts of Military Overflights on Caribou During Calving Season

• Main Authors: Lawler, James P., Magoun, Audrey J., Seaton, C. Tom, Gardner, Craig L., Boertje, Rodney D., Ver Hoef, Jay M., Del Vecchio, Patricia A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2005
• Subjects: aircraft; Alaska; caribou; disturbance; jets; military; mitigation; noise; overflight; Rangifer tarandus; Environmental Sciences; Moa
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/natlpark/13; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/natlpark/article/1012/viewcontent/Lawler_JWM_2005_Short_term_impacts__Natl_Park_Svc.pdf

The Fortymile Caribou Herd (FCH) is the most prominent caribou herd in interior Alaska. A large portion of the FCH calving and summer range lies beneath heavily used Military Operations Areas (MOA) that are important for flight training. We observed the behavior of Grant’s cow caribou (Rangifer tara...