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Gunn, A.
and J. Ashevak. 1990. Distribution, abundance and history of caribou
and muskoxen north and south of the Boothia Isthmus, NWT, May-June 1985.
34 pp.
ABSTRACT
We
conducted a systematic strip transect survey for caribou (Rangifer
tarandus) over Boothia Peninsula and south of Spence Bay between
Pelly Bay and Rae Strait, Northwest Territories.
The estimate of 8,900 ± 1,400 (S.E.) was based on 1,353 caribou
counted on transect between 31 May and 9 June, 1985.
Boothia Peninsula had almost three times as many caribou as
estimated in 1975. caribou are reoccupying areas not used since possibly
the 1940s. Caribou, most
likely Peary caribou (Rangifer tarandus pearyi), calved in the Wrottesley
River valley and barren-ground caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus)
calved on the lowlands east of Arrowsmith Bay.
Any evaluation of the effects of the harvesting of caribou in the
survey area is confounded because we cannot relate the hunted to the
surveyed populations until seasonal movements of the caribou are known.
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