Alaska species accounts, part 1, v4403
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Code 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