Three years ago, 27 individual caribou existed in the Selkirks and Purcell mountains of North Idaho. The subspecies, which counted more than 100 in the late 1950s, disappeared from Idaho last year. Now two University of Idaho students are gathering information about the animals from local residents, which they plan to fold into a graduate project.
David Moskowitz
June 4, 2020
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U of I pair’s caribou project seeks border country stories
Gray ghosts, high mountain deer, forest caribou, the woodland caribou of the Selkirk Mountains went by many names and their ancestors once ranged from coast to coast across the North American midsection along the border country between Canada and the U.S.