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Contact: Wildlife Biologist (Species at Risk), Environment and Climate Change, Government of the Northwest Territories, PO Box 1320, Yellowknife NT, X1A 2L9, (867) 767-9237 extension 53214, SARA@gov.nt.ca |
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NWT Species range distribution for the Northern Mountain Woodland Caribou population. The shapefile includes the range (known distribution) and areas of trace occurrences. The national mountain woodland caribou range was updated by Bonnie Fournier (ENR) for COSEWIC with input from all jurisdictions in August, 2013and finalized in May, 2014. At that time, the Northwest Territories northern mountain caribou population range was updated by the GNWT Regional biologists from the Sahtu and Dehcho regions.In April 2021, Bonnie Fournier (ENR) updated the range to incorporate new information on Yukon herd ranges obtained from Government of Yukon biologists in 2018 as part of the development of the NWT Species at Risk Committee Status Report.In January 2024, Joanna Wilson and Bonnie Fournier (GNWT ECC) updated the Range by expanding it to the southeast in the Nahanni / Prairie Creek area. Its extent in that area now matches the combined annual ranges of all herds that occur within Nahanni (based on the analysis in the report ‘ Spatial Analyses for Nahanni and Nááts'įhch'oh National Park Reserve Caribou, Prepared By: Chrysalis Ecological, Prepared For: Colleen Murchison, Parks Canada Agency, October 2023’.) This extended range also encompasses 2022 and 2023 data collected from collared caribou (GNWT ECC Dehcho region). This change was reviewed with biologists from GNWT ECC, Parks Canada, and Yukon Government. |