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 ...

May 6, 2008 — -- In 2003, Canadian couple Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison spent five months following the migration of the Porcupine Caribou Herd through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Caribou from the Porcupine caribou herd migrate onto the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. With president-elect Donald Trump promising to drill in Alaska's ...

We support this recommendation because if drilling hurt the Porcupine caribou herd, the Gwich'in would likely disappear. "Iizhik Gwats'an Gwandaii Goodlit," is what we call the coastal plain of ...

He's worried about harm that could come to the Porcupine caribou herd. Nathan Gordon Jr., says development can be done responsibly, and that drilling and caribou can, and do, co-exist on the North ...

Heuer, a wildlife biologist, and Allison, a filmmaker, intended to follow members of the Porcupine caribou herd on their long migration to calving grounds in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...

The Porcupine caribou is one of the few barren-ground herds in the circumpolar world that remains strong and healthy — and the communities who rely on it want to make sure it stays that way.

In this photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd migrate onto the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska.

Caribou herd forage in 2019 on vegetation at the ledge of a hill adjacent to the Hulahula River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Porcupine herd may now be the largest in Alaska.

Seen from above, part of Alaska’s Porcupine herd follows trails imprinted on the tundra by millennia of annual caribou migrations. In recent decades, the herds have begun to deviate from these ...

The Gwich'in say they're prepared to ramp up their efforts to protect the calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd in the wake of Donald Trump's re-election — the president-elect has ...