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When spring comes late to the range of the Porcupine Caribou Herd (PCH), migration of
caribou to their traditional calving grounds on the foothills and coastal
plain of the Arctic Refuge is delayed.
This map shows the herd's calving distribution and post calving movements as represented by
the movements of a satellite-collared cow caribou during the late spring of 1987.
In most years a majority of the herd's calves are born on the foothills and coastal plain of
the Arctic Refuge (see PCH Calving Distribution 1983-1999).
In 1987, most calves were born in Canada and
along the migration route. After the calves were strong enough to travel, the herd moved to
the Arctic Refuge to get nutritious forage. In July the animals moved to coastal
areas to find relief from mosquitos.
In the last 18 years, this movement pattern has been observed only in the late springs of 1987,
1986, and 2000.
Note: This is the MapCruzin.com archive of the FWS Arctic National Wildlife Refuge website. In December, 2001 FWS took this website offline, making it unavailable to the public. It includes 90 plus pages of information and many maps. As of 2006 the important information contained in this, the original "unsanitized" version of the FWS website, has yet to return to the internet, so we will continue to maintain it here as a permanent archive to help inform activists and concerned citizens. If you find any broken links, please report them to me at mike@learn2map.com and I will attempt to make the repairs. January, 2008 update - A small part of the original information that was present in 2001 has made it back into the current ANWR website. There is also an archive that contains a small amount of the original information, but it is not readily available from the main website.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2001. Potential impacts of proposed oil and gas
development on the Arctic Refuge’s
coastal plain: Historical overview and
issues of concern. Web page of the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge,
Fairbanks, Alaska.
17 January 2001. http://arctic.fws.gov/issues1.html
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