• Thumbnail for Porcupine caribou
    The Porcupine caribou (Rangifer tarandus arcticus) is a herd or ecotype of barren-ground caribou, the subspecies of the reindeer or caribou found in Alaska...
    25 KB (2,974 words) - 10:16, 27 October 2024
  • the Porcupine caribou (also known as Grant's caribou) for millennia, have depended on caribou for food, clothing, and shelter. COSEWIC divided caribou ecotypes...
    77 KB (7,851 words) - 13:00, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reindeer distribution
    (including the Porcupine, Dolphin-Union and other Alaskan and Canadian herds of barren-ground caribou); Osborn's caribou, R. t. oborni; and Peary caribou, R. t...
    67 KB (7,230 words) - 20:19, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
    oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge threatens the Porcupine caribou herd's calving grounds, while climate change forces polar bears to...
    41 KB (4,751 words) - 00:12, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barren-ground caribou
    south-western Greenland. It includes the Porcupine caribou of Yukon and Alaska. The barren-ground caribou is a medium-sized caribou, smaller and lighter-colored than...
    34 KB (4,061 words) - 12:15, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reindeer
    Reindeer (redirect from Arctic caribou)
    caribou (R. t. pearyi) lives in the polar desert of the high Arctic Archipelago and Grant's caribou (R. t. granti also called the Porcupine caribou)...
    202 KB (22,076 words) - 01:48, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gwichʼin
    ornate beadwork. They also continue to make traditional caribou-skin clothing and porcupine quillwork embroidery, both of which are highly regarded among...
    31 KB (3,242 words) - 18:10, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arctic Refuge drilling controversy
    in particular the calving ground of the Porcupine caribou. In their documentary Being Caribou the Porcupine herd was followed in its yearly migration...
    54 KB (6,277 words) - 04:43, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boreal woodland caribou
    Unlike the Porcupine caribou and barren-ground caribou, boreal woodland caribou are primarily (but not always) sedentary. The boreal woodland caribou is the...
    99 KB (11,485 words) - 03:05, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brooks Range
    grizzly bears, black bear, gray wolf, moose and porcupine caribou. In Alaska, the Western Arctic Caribou herd (490,000 strong in 2004) traverses the Brooks...
    18 KB (2,116 words) - 00:55, 11 September 2024