Abstract
Forest harvesting in mountain caribou range has been an issue for many years. Radiotelemetry studies on mountain caribou in the last decade have helped identify the geographic areas of conflict, improved understanding of the mechanisms by which forestry activities affect caribou, and suggested new approaches to management. Forest harvesting has begun to impact population of northern caribou, and researchers have begun to examine those impacts. Interest in integrating forest management and caribou habitat management has increased and has manifested itself in two ways: experimentation with special stand management practices intended to maintain or create caribou habitat, and the creation of tools to help managers make decisions in a landscape context.
Highlights
In the last decade researchers and managers concerned w i t h caribou/forestry issues i n British Columbia have seen major changes i n the information base available to them and i n the problems they confront
There have been only t w o major caribou studies i n that part of BritishColumbia (Hatler 1986; Cichowski 1989), and o n l y the latter is directly related to forestry concerns
The last decade has seen a shift inhow British Columbia biologists think about the natural regulation of caribou populations
Summary
In the last decade researchers and managers concerned w i t h caribou/forestry issues i n British Columbia have seen major changes i n the information base available to them and i n the problems they confront. There have been only t w o major caribou studies i n that part of BritishColumbia (Hatler 1986; Cichowski 1989), and o n l y the latter is directly related to forestry concerns. The last decade has seen a shift inhow British Columbia biologists think about the natural regulation of caribou populations. Biologists were polarized into t w o camps - one that stressed the importance of prédation in limiting caribou populations, and one that stressed the importance of habitat. There is a general recognition that the major habitat variable affecting caribou numbers is space. There is a reluctant, but i n creasing recognition on the part of managers that it may be counterproductive to t r y to maintain caribou and manage for high moose populations i n the same area
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