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1958
Rangifer arcticus
18 June East of Bassen
On the flight with Maher and Shank,
I saw a total of 14. Maher saw several
others. On the return flight to Bassen
I saw scattered small groups of 2 to
8 north of Uniat.
5 June Bassen to Meade River - group of
6 seen about 10 miles N. of the Meade
River along our flight line from Skelle
Cliff. Later in the day two calves and
2 yearlings came past our transect 728.
One of the yearlings was shot by an Eskimo.
27 June One lone animal was seen on the left
limit of the view about 5 mi. above Camp.
Uniat (Colville River)
30 July Harold Griffin told me that during
the wolf breeding season the largest
concentration of Caribbean caribou is centered
south of the Colville between the Ayuk-
tiwaak River and the Puvunga Lakes.
Later, The FWS people (Sig Olsson
and Joe M. New) in early June found
a spawning ground in the Liberator
Lake region of the upper Colville. I have
they estimated 60,000 calves, 40,000
calves and 20,000 bulls. They saw
no wolves at this time, although .
conditions were not good then for seeing