According to a public notice published on June 6, the board will meet in July in Anchorage to consider changing the state’s ...

Endangered mountain caribou in British Columbia possess a unique gut microbiome in late winter when they feed on tree lichens ...

A $285,000 investment over three years from TC Energy will go toward funding the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo's lichen harvest program for woodland caribou.

Using their wide hooves, caribou can travel on top of deep snow and reach lichen hanging off trees in places few predators can reach. But as their forested habitat becomes more fragmented ...

One day this mountain will be a hummock on the plains. These mountain-top lichens have been here since herds of caribou grazed down in the valley, following the lichens’ bushier cousins ...

Since caribou rely on lichen and moss to survive, the spread of woody plants across their traditional habitat has made it less suitable for supporting a thriving herd. Critics also say diseases such ...

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 ...

Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison while working on Being Caribou. Credit ... getting closer to cushion plants and lichen and pikas and sky. But the outdoor media I encountered during that time ...

A group of caribou moves easily over snow. The animals’ hooves, which have four “toes,” act as snowshoes. Warmer, icier winters make it difficult for them to dig down to the lichens that ...

Once cut, they are replaced by new forests, which lack the lichen and plants that allow caribou to thrive. “The landscape has been changed in a way that natural disturbances wouldn’t have ...