Climate Change, Policy Choices, and the Future of Woodland Caribou - Presentation by Dr. Nancy Langston, Fulbright Canada Research Chair

Event Date: 
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm EST
Event Location: 
ATAC 1003 Lakehead University

About the Event

In May 2018, woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) were declared functionally extinct in the United States after the last remnant population in the Selkirk Mountains of Idaho dwindled to three lone females.  In the Lake Superior basin, a genetically distinct population of woodland caribou nearly met the same fate in February 2018. Across the Canadian north, woodland caribou have disappeared from roughly half their 19th century range. Is climate change dooming woodland caribou? Or has climate change become an excuse to avoid making difficult policy decisions that could save the caribou but antagonize industry and environmental groups?

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