For several hours we pushed ahead but saw nothing. Then Bob suggested that we hike down off the ridge to get out of the strong wind and take a break. Right after I sat down I discovered one reason ...

Lichens on the Nushagak Peninsula are a critical food source for the caribou that live there. But as the herd has thrived, exceeding management goals, they are depleting the complex composites.

Plainly it was our day. We hadn’t been out an hour when we saw sunlight flash on a rack across the small valley we were skirting. We glassed the place, found the solitary stag caribou, and I ...

The reindeer, known as caribou when wild in North America, is an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer. About 1 million live in Alaska, and a comparable number live in northern Canada. There are an ...