Being Caribou

Author : Karsten Heuer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : PSU:000065243954

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Being Caribou by Karsten Heuer Pdf

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.

Author : Karsten Heuer
Publisher : Walker Childrens
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0802795668

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Being Caribou by Karsten Heuer Pdf

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. Hungry wolves, huge grizzly bears, human hunters, and hordes of bloodthirsty insects besiege the herd as it travels to its one safe haven—Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. There, those that survive the trip have a few peaceful weeks to give birth and prepare their calves for the harsh year ahead. Karsten Heuer and his wife, Leanne Allison, are the only humans ever to become part of a caribou herd and join it on its arduous journey. They shared the same mind-numbing cold, the endless miles of physical hardship, and all the dangers along the route to chronicle the epic battle for survival these animals face. To keep up, they had to move, act, and even think like caribou. Karsten and Leanne's incredible adventure gives us a window into a world that we have never seen before.

Author : Tomson Highway
Publisher : Songs of the North Wind
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1927083494

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Caribou Song by Tomson Highway Pdf

"Joe and Cody are brothers who follow the caribou (ateek) all year long. Joe plays the accordion (kitoochigan) and Cody dances to entice the wandering caribou. But when thousands of caribou heed their call, the boys become part of a magical adventure."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Monte Hummel,Justina C. Ray
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781459718425

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Caribou and the North by Monte Hummel,Justina C. Ray Pdf

"If the caribou die, then we die." These few words speak eloquently to the significanceof caribou for northern peoples. They were spoken not by a wise old chief, but by a 13-year-old Dene youth in 2007 during a hearing regarding uranium exploration on the caribou wintering grounds. Right now there is urgent, widespread concern about the future of the most centralof species: caribou. Caribou and the North brings both the facts and the feelingsof the current situation to a North American readership. The writers look at why we need to conserve the caribou, the threats that have faced caribou in the past, present, and future, and the actions that we can take. Also included is an appendixwith up-to-date information on the range, movements, habitats, numbers, population trends, and key threats to caribou in North America.

Author : A. T. Bergerud,Stuart N. Luttich,Lodewijk Camps
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : UCSC:32106019511358

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The Return of Caribou to Ungava by A. T. Bergerud,Stuart N. Luttich,Lodewijk Camps Pdf

How a caribou population went from the brink of extinction in the 1950s to the largest herd in the world in the late 1980s - and whether it can survive today's environmental changes.

Author : Roman Patrick
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433943157

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Caribou by Roman Patrick Pdf

Introduces the caribou, describing their physical characteristics, eating habits, and migratory behavior.

Author : Joyce Markovics
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781617721304

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Caribou by Joyce Markovics Pdf

Follows Karsten Heuer as he tracks the Porcupine caribou herd through Northern Canada.

Author : Alexa Weik von Mossner
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781771120043

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Moving Environments by Alexa Weik von Mossner Pdf

In Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, international scholars investigate how films portray human emotional relationships with the more-than-human world and how such films act upon their viewers’ emotions. Emotion and affect are the basic mechanisms that connect us to our environment, shape our knowledge, and motivate our actions. Contributors explore how film represents and shapes human emotion in relation to different environments and what role time, place, and genre play in these affective processes. Individual essays resituate well-researched environmental films such as An Inconvenient Truth and March of the Penguins by paying close attention to their emotionalizing strategies, and bring to our attention the affective qualities of films that have so far received little attention from ecocritics, such as Stan Brakhage’s Dog Star Man. The collection opens a new discursive space at the disciplinary intersection of film studies, affect studies, and a growing body of ecocritical scholarship. It will be of interest not only to scholars and students working in the field of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, but for everyone with an interest in our emotional responses to film.

Author : Will Hobbs
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062223845

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Never Say Die by Will Hobbs Pdf

In this fast-paced adventure story set in the Canadian arctic, fifteen-year-old Inuit hunter Nick Thrasher comes face-to-face with a fearsome creature on a routine caribou hunt gone wrong. Part grizzly, part polar bear, this environmental mutant has been pegged the “grolar bear” by wildlife experts. Nick may have escaped this time, but it won’t be his last encounter. Then Nick’s estranged half-brother, Ryan, offers to take him on a rafting trip down a remote part of the Firth River. But when disaster strikes, the two narrowly evade death. They’re left stranded without supplies—and then the grolar bear appears. Will Hobbs brings his singular style to this suspenseful story about two brothers fighting for survival against the unpredictable—and sometimes deadly—whims of nature.

Author : David Moskowitz
Publisher : Braided River, the conservation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1680511289

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Caribou Rainforest by David Moskowitz Pdf

"In a new book, photographer David Moskowitz turns his lens on the story of a rapidly declining species and habitat" - Smithsonian

Author : Henry S. Sharp,Karyn Sharp
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803274464

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Hunting Caribou by Henry S. Sharp,Karyn Sharp Pdf

"Participant ethnography of the subsistence hunting practices of a band of Denesuline in the Northwestern Territories"--

Author : Ernest S. Burch Jr.
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781602231801

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Caribou Herds of Northwest Alaska, 1850-2000 by Ernest S. Burch Jr. Pdf

In his final, major publication Ernest S. “Tiger” Burch Jr. reconstructs the distribution of caribou herds in northwest Alaska using data and information from research conducted over the past several decades as well as sources that predate western science by more than one hundred years. Additionally, he explores human and natural factors that contributed to the demise and recovery of caribou and reindeer populations during this time. Burch provides an exhaustive list of published and unpublished literature and interviews that will intrigue laymen and experts alike. The unflinching assessment of the roles that humans and wolves played in the dynamics of caribou and reindeer herds will undoubtedly strike a nerve. Supplemental essays before and after the unfinished work add context about the author, the project of the book, and the importance of both.

Author : Seth Kantner
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781594859717

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A Thousand Trails Home by Seth Kantner Pdf

2023 Independent Publisher Book Award GOLD in Environmental/Ecology 2022 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Natural History Literature "A Thousand Trails Home is a book of supernal majesty, a book to break and restore your heart. Seth Kantner’s devotion to the living pulse and unity of the skein of wonder that is the Alaskan wilderness haunts and inspires me." -- Louise Erdrich, author of The Night Watchman Bestselling, award-winning author of Ordinary Wolves, a debut novel Publisher’s Weekly called “a tour de force” Conservation-based story of changing Arctic from an on-the-ground perpective Features full-color photography throughout A stunningly lyrical firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou, A Thousand Trails Home encompasses the historical past and present day, revealing the fragile intertwined lives of people and animals surviving on an uncertain landscape of cultural and climatic change sweeping the Alaskan Arctic. Author Seth Kantner vividly illuminates this critical story about the interconnectedness of the Iñupiat of Northwest Alaska, the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, and the larger Arctic region. This story has global relevance as it takes place in one of the largest remaining intact wilderness ecosystems on the planet, ground zero for climate change in the US. This compelling and complex tale revolves around the politics of caribou, race relations, urban vs. rural demands, subsistence vs. sport hunting, and cultural priorities vs. resource extraction—a story that requires a fearless writer with an honest voice and an open heart.

Author : Mountaineers Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1594850518

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Being Caribou by Mountaineers Books Pdf

Author : David Vann
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061987809

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Legend of a Suicide by David Vann Pdf

“The reportorial relentlessness of [David] Vann’s imagination often makes his fiction seem less written than chiseled. A small, lovely book has been written out of his large and evident pain.”—New York Times Book Review In Legend of a Suicide, his heartbreaking semi-autobiographical debut story-collection, David Vann relates the story of a young man trying to come to terms with the guilt and pain of his father’s suicide. The wild outback of the author’s native Alaska acts as the ideal backdrop for this collage of six stories—a novella and five shorts—and mirrors the author’s own psychological wilderness. From “an important new voice in American literature” (Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain) comes an unforgettable exploration of the tragic gaps between one boy and his father.