Sept/Oct 1999, Volume 4 #5

The boreal forest, named after Boreas, the greek god of the north wind, stretches around the northern reaches of the globe. One inhabitant of this expansive ecosystem of spruce, fir, aspen and birch is the woodland caribou, Rangifer tarandus caribou. Closely related to its more familiar cousin, the barren-ground caribou, this secretive and ancient deer has largely escaped attention as human development has spread northwards into its boreal forest realm.