Reindeer/caribou conflicts on the Seward Peninsula and northwest Alaska : a human problem
Jermunson D. 1991. Reindeer/caribou conflicts on the Seward Peninsula and northwest Alaska : a human problem. Pages 205-212. In Jermunson D. Wildlife production : conservation and sustainable development. University of Alaska Fairbanks. Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station
This paper describes conflicts between land and reindeer herd management. Herd population dynamics and habitat management as they relate to the reindeer industry in Alaska are examined. Tundra lichen was used as an indicator species of range conditions. Emerging from the report are concerns involving grazing of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd which is used by subsistence hunters and the domestic reindeer herds on the Seward Peninsula. Divided land use through subsistence hunting and reindeer herding is predicted to become a center of growing political controversy.
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Authors
- Jermunson, Don
- Units
- BELA
- Keywords
- Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Caribou, Grazing, Land Management, Population Dynamics, Range, Rangifer tarandus, Reindeer, Seward Peninsula