Once one of the state's largest caribou herds, the low population of Southwest Alaska's Mulchatna herd has failed to recover.

Once one of the states largest caribou herds, southwestern Alaska's Mulchatna caribou herds' low population has failed to ...

A 35-year look at 800 southern mountain caribou across B.C. and Alberta shows major declines in unique seasonal migration ...

It is unknown why caribou can see Ultraviolet light. But some preliminary experiments show that Lichen, a low growing plant-like organism, and the main food source for caribou during winter ...

This meant that resident caribou were relatively free to roam and spread out with little risk of high predation as they fed on their favoured food, terrestrial lichen. Following seasonal cycles ...

FEEDING: Although caribou eat a wide variety of foods, winter foraging is limited almost exclusively to ground and arboreal lichens. Caribou in the Selkirk population eat lichens for up to six months ...