Jim and I left for Uncle Wat’s home immediately. On the way we picked up Fran Johnston, the third member of our hunting trio. I’d never seen a caribou. To say that I was impressed by the bull’s long, ...

Peter Mather The calving grounds, which lie within the Arctic National ... so residents can spot caribou silhouettes as they break the horizon near town. Subsistence hunting is still a major ...

The traditional diet, known as “country food,” includes fish, wild caribou ... With the Arctic heating up nearly four times faster than the rest of the world, the winter hunting season ...

It’s up to an Alaska federal court to decide who has the rights to a portion of land between the Canning and Staines rivers ...

Barren-ground caribou in the North American Arctic are known to complete one of the most dramatic migrations, with herds numbering in the hundreds of thousands, including pregnant females ...

Raymond Tritt, 52, dresses a fallen bull on the spring caribou hunt. Like virtually every Gwich ... Scott Wallace Like many other villages across the Arctic, Kaktovik reaps the fruits of oil ...

Each spring, men and women spend weeks on the tuvaq—the ice near the water—watching for bowhead whales migrating north from the Bering Sea to the Canadian Arctic ... If the hunt is successful ...

This specific population of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) — also known as reindeer — inhabits the Arctic regions of Canada ... threatened primarily by climate change and ...