B.C. plans to log old-growth forest, threatening endangered southern mountain caribou habitat, despite commitments to ...

Endangered mountain caribou in British Columbia possess a unique gut microbiome in late winter when they feed on tree lichens, a finding that could guide caribou recovery efforts, according to a ...

Nearby in the Selkirk Mountains, which form Washington’s borders with Idaho and British Columbia, the southern-most herd of the mountain caribou is taking its last stand. With fewer than 15 animals ...

This is a tough story to tell. In 2019 the last of the mountain caribou in the lower 48 states disappeared. Extinct. Deforestation threatens those that are left. Professional Wildlife tracker and ...

SAVING THE MOUNTAIN CARIBOU . With heavily muscled bodies, skinny legs, and strong hooves that balloon to the size of dinner plates come winter, mountain caribou — the "mountain ecotype" of the ...

Washington-based wildlife tracker, author and photographer David Moskowitz detailed the plight of our state’s mountain caribou population in Seattle magazine more than two years ago. Moskowitz dives ...

image: This is a mountain caribou in the southern Canadian Rockies. view more Credit: Mark Bradley, Boreal Nature Photos. The declining mountain caribou populations of Canada's southern Rockies ...

In the 1990s the Fish and Wildlife Service augmented the southern Selkirk herd with caribou from Canada, which helped the population grow to more than 100 animals. But the effort was abandoned without ...

Dau's findings that pregnant caribou are especially sensitive to roads—giving them a berth of up to 3.7 miles (6 kilometers)—are consistent with Panzacchi's, he said.

More mountain caribou remain wild on the B.C. side of the border, but there, too, ... These photos of the caribou going about their daily life are deeply affecting.

It’s estimated that fewer than 1,400 mountain caribou are left in North America. Scientists believe caribou once roamed as far south as the Salmon River in Idaho.

So capturing a photo of a Selkirk mountain caribou isn’t just a big deal, says Kalispel Tribe wildlife biologist Bart George — It’s “The Holy Grail for trail cam pictures!” That is, if ...