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Manomet:
The Porcupine River caribou herd – 120,000 animals strong – seeks out this narrow plain for their spring ... spring,” says Mauer. “So it is critical that we leave their calving areas protected.” The Porcupine caribou are the lifeblood and cultural symbol of the Athabaskan Gwich'in people of northeastern Alaska ...
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U.S. Arctic national wildlife refuge oil drilling because of negative impacts on the Porcupine Caribou herd; & Attwater Prairie Chicken captive breeding program. 1505 28:30 Management practices in Canadian forests ...
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Welcome to Environmental Review - Archives - 2004
The refuge is the home of one of the biggest caribou herds in the world, which supports several thousand native people. In fact, Congress increased the ... thought to be underneath it. However, that land is the summer calving grounds for the Porcupine caribou herd; that is, the heart of the refuge. As long as Russia floods the world ...
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Environment Probe
Porcupine caribou herds and wetlands that support 300,000 nesting – and even greater numbers of staging – waterfowl ...
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Caribou and Our National Parks
Caribou Highlights: Male bull caribou weigh as much as 600 pounds while female caribou weigh closer to 300 pounds. Caribou ... caribou can lose up to 1/2 pint of blood a day when mosquitoes are numerous. One of the largest herds of caribou in the United States is the Porcupine caribou ... years. Read more about the Porcupine caribou herd that lives in the Arctic ...
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The Porcupine Caribou Herd, Dall sheep, Moose and of the various fish species, the Whitefish, Arctic Char, and ...
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Oil drilling and development of a petroleum industrial infrastructure within the pristine and fragile arctic ecosystem would devastate the calving grounds of the caribou and the lives of the Gwich'in. Gwich’in peoples’ relationship with the caribou is beyond food subsistence. The ...
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American Society of International Law Wildlife Interest Group Resources
... Canada and the Government of The United States of America on the Conservation of the Porcupine Caribou Herd (1987)
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Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) - National Geographic Adventure Magazine
Alaska wilderness, such as the annual migration of the Porcupine caribou herd, which travels to the coastal plain every summer to calve. (Watch a video of ...
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National Geographic Adventure on the Arctic Wildlife Refuge
This is an area across which the 130,000-strong Porcupine Caribou Herd migrates, where 135 species of birds live, and where ... realm. The Gwich'in and Inupiat people here are dependent on caribou and native marine species for survival. In the audio files at ... 56.6 Wildlife Impact (2:52) "The big issue in terms of caribou is, will development disrupt [the] calving cycle?" LISTEN RealPlayer 28.8 ...
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