Lost ‘bou

A great video of caribou migrating. The channel says Alaska but I think that is BS. I saw this in Sept on Meta. It looks like Northern Quebec. I love how they stream over the hill down to the river. 20,000 years ago our ancestors would be very familiar with it. Source Source ​A couple of very nice Newfoundland caribou above. I have been there a few times and never saw one that I remember. It is not hard in some spots as they come in right around towns, etc. Around here they are long gone. My grandmother saw them in the late 1800s north of town but that would have been the last gasp. They are dependent on mature forests with lichen food supplies and that was rapidly disappearing with logging and fire. Similar stories are playing out in the west now with mountain caribou. Poaching was rife and it is a wonder any survived as long as they did. By the 1920’s, they were gone from the province. If that didn’t do it brainworm from deer and global warming would have by now. The only remnant…

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