The Hart and Cariboo Mountains Recovery Implementation Group (RIG) has completed a plan that recommends management actions that would create self-sustaining populations of “threatened” woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) of the mountain ecotype within the Hart Range of the Rocky Mountains, and the Cariboo Mountains. Historically, caribou distribution was contiguous throughout the Recovery Area, but as numbers declined, populations have become somewhat fragmented and isolated.
The following herds are recognised in the Recovery Area:
- Hart Ranges
- North Cariboo Mountains
- Narrow Lake
- George Mountain
- Barkerville
- Wells Grey North
- Wells Grey South
- George Mountain (herd became extirpated in 2003).
The recommendations of the Recovery Action Plan were used by the provincial Mountain Caribou Science Team to develop the Provincial Mountain Caribou Recovery Plan.
That plan is currently being implemented, including additional habitat protection, implementing snowmobile restrictions, and managing the predator-prey system.
Details of the plan and the current status of recovery actions can be found at www.env.gov.bc.ca/sarco/mc/updates.html.
That plan is currently being implemented, including additional habitat protection, implementing snowmobile restrictions, and managing the predator-prey system.
Details of the plan and the current status of recovery actions can be found at www.env.gov.bc.ca/sarco/mc/updates.html.
