Land Form and Caribou Distribution in British Columbia

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Eight years of field work in southern and central British Columbia, often in areas inhabited by caribou (Rangifer arcticus), have suggested that the land form of mountainous caribou range is fairly constant as to type. In five areas containing caribou where the writer has done field work, summer range is at and above timberline on high foothill elevations adjacent to ranges of rugged mountains. These elevations may be described best as rolling mountains, typically with extensive flats and gentle slopes near their tops, and sufficiently high to support extensive alpine meadows above treeline. In four cases these caribou-inhabited elevations are part of the transition from British Columbia's Central Plateau to adjacent precipitous mountains. The exception is on and near the divide of the Rocky Mountains, in an area where the mountains are much less rugged than either to the north or south.

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