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 ...

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.

More mountain caribou remain wild on the B.C. side of the border, but there, too, the caribou’s fate rests in the hands of humans, and our capacity for restraint. Most Read Entertainment Stories ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The southern mountain caribou is on the verge of disappearing from the American landscape — and that's a dire warning to Canada, scientists say. Last week, biologists flew over southern British ...

A Montana bow hunter may have claimed the largest recorded mountain caribou in the Northwest Territories, Canada, which could make it one of the largest in the world. Mark Seacat, a professional ...