The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and ...

The Western Arctic Caribou Herd, once the biggest in Alaska, is faltering, having fallen from a high of 490,000 animals in 2003 to only 152,000 as of 2023. But to the east, the Porcupine Caribou ...

The Teshekpuk Caribou Herd, which spends the entire year on the North Slope, The Teshekpuk Caribou herd grew from 40,000 in 2011 to 61,500 as of 2022, according to the Alaska Department of Fish ...

According to the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board, a population survey conducted in 2023 and published earlier this year estimated there are now 153,000 animals in the Beverly herd — ...

One of the biggest caribou herds in North America has taken a nosedive, and climate change is a likely culprit in the population decline. Alaska’s Western Arctic Caribou Herd population is lower ...

In 2023, scientists were conducting an aerial survey of the Beverly caribou herd when its photography plane suffered ...

JUNEAU — The size of a large caribou herd in Alaska’s Arctic region has dropped by more 50 percent over the last three years, and researchers who have ...

The Western Arctic Caribou Herd Working Group voted to propose reducing the harvest for resident subsistence hunters from five caribou a day to four caribou per year, just one of which could be a cow.

News; Spokane; Sole surviving member of the South Selkirk caribou herd captured, Gray Ghosts are no more in Lower 48 Jan. 18, 2019 Updated Fri., Jan. 18, 2019 at 10:05 p.m.

Across Alaska, caribou herds are subject to constant cycles of growth and decline. Along with these population changes, it’s important to note that caribou will also change their range and migration ...

Unlike their Arctic cousins, mountain caribou don’t make sweeping migrations, or gather in herds of tens of thousands—at least not anymore. When the project began in 2013, only 38 Klinse-Za ...