Nearby in the Selkirk Mountains, which form Washington’s borders with Idaho and British Columbia, the southern-most herd of the mountain caribou is taking its last stand. With fewer than 15 animals ...

The report, from three B.C. conservation groups — Wildsight, Stand.earth, and the Wilderness Committee — uses provincial ...

Mountain caribou, unlike tundra caribou, use their wide feet to walk on top of deep snowpack. That allows them to reach lichen growing high on old-growth trees.

The southern mountain caribou — a unique ecotype that lives in B.C.'s Southern Interior — are dying out, and biologists don't know what to do to save them. Efforts not working.

The last herd of southern mountain caribou - known as gray ghosts - has reportedly dwindled down to the point where wildlife experts are calling them "functionally extinct" in the U.S. mainland.

Mountain caribou have this amazing lifestyle where they are dependent on these huge tracts of old-growth forest. The reason they can survive there is because nothing else will live there.

Mountain Caribou's Ancient Ancestry Revealed Date: February 3, 2009 Source: University of Calgary Summary: The declining mountain caribou populations of Canada's southern Rockies are a more ...

Mountain caribou have become somewhat of an obsession for David Moskowitz. He was drawn towards documenting them and understanding the unique ecology of how these animals have evolved to survive.

Volunteers in North Idaho are lichen their role in saving the most critically endangered animals in North America. In a last-ditch effort to keep the dozen or so South Selkirks mountain caribou ...

The last herd of southern mountain caribou -- known as gray ghosts -- has reportedly dwindled down to the point where wildlife experts are calling them "functionally extinct" ...