Assessing the trade-offs between timber supply and wildlife protection goals in boreal landscapes

• Main Authors: Yemshanov, Denys, Haight, Robert G., Liu, Ning, Parisien, Marc-André, Barber, Quinn E., Koch, Frank H., Burton, Cole, Mansuy, Nicolas, Campioni, Fabio, Choudhury, Salimur
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2019
• Subjects: Canada; Caribou Range; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/99152; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjfr-2019-0234

Protecting wildlife within areas of resource extraction often involves reducing habitat fragmentation. In Canada, protecting threatened woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou (Gmelin, 1788)) populations requires preserving large areas of intact forest habitat, with some restrictions on industri...