PR (BNE) - 051: Assessing the Impacts of Summer Range on Bathurst Caribou’s Productivity and Abundance since 1985
Key words: Barren Ground Caribou, Late-Winter Calf:Cow Ratio, Summer Range, Leaf Biomass, Phenology
Key words: Barren Ground Caribou, Late-Winter Calf:Cow Ratio, Summer Range, Leaf Biomass, Phenology
Key words: Bathurst caribou herd, caribou management, demographic model, deterministic model, ordinary least squares, stochastic model, Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus
Key words: caribou, Bluenose-East herd, 2013 calving ground photo survey, estimate of breeding females
Key words: caribou, Bluenose-East herd estimate, core calving ground, 2015 photo and visual surveys
Key words: aerial survey, Canis lupus, furbearer, gray wolf, large scale, network sampling, population estimation, probability sampling, snow, tracks.
Key words: caribou, Bathurst herd, accelerated declines, population models
Key words: barren-ground caribou, modeling, demographics, harvest, adult survival, Bathurst and Bluenose-East herds
Key words: ACCWM, management plan, caribou, Cape Bathurst, Bluenose-West and Bluenose-East, scientific knowledge, herd status, knowledge gaps
Key words: harvest scenarios, caribou, Bluenose-East, management, stochastic population model
This is a letter and document from ENR to the WRRB providing the DRAFT 2015 Calving Photo Survey Report for the 2016 Bluenose Caribou Herd Proceeding. Please note that the document is still in draft form and will require further review before it is finalized.