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For countless millennia, the caribou herds of Northwest Alaska have migrated across the Brooks Range in fall, leaving their calving grounds in the Arctic tundra for sheltered valleys to the south. And ...
A life-long resident of Alaska worries a road would destroy ... not to mention innumerable caribou migration routes. For much of my adult life, I’ve roamed the Brooks Range—from Anaktuvuk to the ...
Decades of caribou research show the proposed road would disrupt migration, fragment habitat and harm food security in rural ...
Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski ... putting villagers at odds with the Gwich’in south of the Brooks Range, who also depend on the Porcupine caribou herd that summers and calves along the coastal ...
It would also interrupt the migratory path of the Western Arctic caribou herd — until recently, Alaska’s largest ... entire southern toe of the Brooks Range along the proposed road corridor ...
On one side are the militantly traditionalist Gwich'in—7,000 people living in 15 settlements scattered along the caribou's migration route between northeastern Alaska and the Canadian Yukon.
Western Alaska’s Mulchatna caribou herd ... s efforts to the critically declining Mulchatna caribou herd. Since 2012, the ADFG has been using aerial methods to remove wolves from the herd’s range. In ...
Alaska officials are seeking emergency ... management” program to continue for a third year in the range of the ailing Mulchatna Caribou Herd. The proposal came on the first day of an eight ...