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For eons, female members of the Porcupine caribou herd have made the 2,800-mile journey from their winter feeding grounds to their summer calving grounds. They once roamed borderless wilderness; now they trek from Canada, where they're protected, to the United States, where they are not. What's more, beneath the calving grounds lay vast reserves of oil. Determined to convey both the enormity of the caribous’ migration and the delicacy of their habitat, Karsten Heuer and his wife spent their honeymoon following the herd. For five months, they traveled an uncharted course on foot over mountains, through snow, and across frozen rivers, with only three semi-scheduled food drops for support. As with the caribou, Heuer and his wife faced dwindling fat reserves and stalking by ravenous grizzlies and wolves just awakened from hibernation. Both a rousing adventure story and a sober ecological meditation, Being Caribou vividly conveys this magnificent animal's world.

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• Hardcover : 199 pages


• Title : Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd (The World As Home)


• Language : English


• ISBN-10 : 1571313087

 

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Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd. In one of the earth's most amazing migrations, more than 100,000 caribou trek thousands of miles each year over high mountain ranges, through snowy passes, and across icy rivers. But they have to battle more than just the brutal elements.
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In 2003, he again set off on skis and foot with his wife, Leanne Allison, and over the course of five months, followed the Porcupine Caribou Herd from their Yukon winter range to their endangered Alaskan calving grounds and back. This is the subject of Being Caribou, both his book and the accompanying National Film Board of Canada documentary.
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Being Caribou is about a remarkable, possibly unique journey that Heuer and his new wife, Leanne Allison, undertook in 2003. For five months, they followed the 123,000 strong Porcupine caribou herd from its wintering grounds near Old Crow in the Yukon to its threatened calving grounds in Alaska and back.
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An accompanying book, Being Caribou, records the five months in 2003 when the couple trekked behind the Porcupine caribou herd on a 61,500 kilometer round trip from Old Crow to the herd's calving grounds in the midst of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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In 2003, they again laced up their boots and migrated for 5 months across the Yukon and Alaska with the endangered Porcupine Caribou Herd (Being Caribou). In 2007, they took their two year old toddler and paddled, portaged, and sailed across Canada to meet writer Farley Mowat (Finding Farley).

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