Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Porcupine caribou herd on a patch of snow photographed from an airplane during an aerial survey last year. Biologists take ...

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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 Herd ...

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The United States has designated 640 million acres as public lands for all Americans to enjoy. Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to over 200,000 caribou, also known as reindeer. The ...

FAIRBANKS, ALASKA —The Porcupine Caribou Herd hit a record high in 2017, according to the results of a July photo census. The new Alaska Department of Fish and Game census puts the herd’s population ...

Expresses the concerns of the Yukon government and the native communities over the proposed oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska and its effects on the ...

BARROW, Alaska -- Time is running out for the Porcupine caribou herd, according to the conservation officer for the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation. Darius Kassi said the caribou are late again this year ...

The caribou herd that is at the center of the debate over oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has declined by about a third over the past eight years, according to state biologists.