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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Porcupine caribou herd — numbering roughly 218,000, according to the most recent count in 2017 — navigates a tortured existence. Cows drop their babies nearly simultaneously, around June 1 ...

The huge Porcupine Caribou Herd that ranges between Alaska and Canada may have reversed a decline that had cut its size by nearly a third. Biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game ...

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.

For Porcupine caribou, it says construction using heavy equipment could be banned in the animal’s primary calving area between May 20 and June 20, unless caribou enter the area earlier.

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 ...

Tucked along the northern border of Alaska and Canada, the nearly 20 million acres of wilderness is home to a variety of wildlife species, including the Porcupine caribou herd, which visits the ...

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.

He had just feasted on a freshly killed porcupine caribou, and now he lolled around, seemingly full and happy, blocking our path up the valley. We crouched down and brought out binoculars.