Guided Caribou Hunt

[KC1]

Originally Posted by marky_mark

Nwt is still closed
Yukon as of now is technically open but could change
Other option would be bc
You won’t find a barren ground caribou hunt in Canada for the price you find them list for in Alaska. Most of the cheap Alaskan hunts are unguided drop camps.
Not an option in Canada

Does BC still have a caribou hunt?

[Torkdiesel]

Originally Posted by KC1

Does BC still have a caribou hunt?

As of right now we do, that may change shortly

[cowmanbob]

Tombstone outfitters in the Yukon or any of the Nwt outfitters would be your best bet.

[outofbounds]

Originally Posted by marky_mark

Only place your allowed to hunt woodland caribou
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Question, is this most likely due to no predators such as wolves, same applies to the islands moose populations/density?

Black bears for sure for known predators, predation on the moose calves, not sure on the caribou.

Or is it better management practices?

Some other locations with dwindling woodland caribou populations are merely squeeking by, only due to lack of an ice bridge for wolves to cross over to the offshore islands where carbou are for majority of the season. Two notable seasons where ice had formed, resulted in high numbers of predation, those that survived were helicoptered to other nearby islands with no ice bridge.

To try and save the caribou in these locations they are allocating high cow moose tags to reduce the moose population/density so as to remove the prey from the landscape in hopes of saving the diminished northshore woodland herd or what remains, less than 40 from recent numbers.

So decimate the moose herd in 5 WMU in a last ditch effort to save 30-40 caribou that ultimately are at the fate of an ice bridge to the inhabitated islands.

Ungulate management at its finest...
This fiasco is called the Caribou Mosaic.

Predators, harvest numbers, habitat defragmentation are they all applicable to lower numbers of the migratory herds which once numbered in the thousands?

[Peace Country]

Originally Posted by 35 whelen

Contact sub-arctic hunts Ken gangler in Manitoba not sure what their status is this year but they still do hunts. t might be tough to find an operation that's running this year there's also another one I forget their name they hunt out a Nunavut out of Winnipeg

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Which lodge did you guide for?

[35 whelen]

Originally Posted by Peace Country

Which lodge did you guide for?

I guided for a few I guided at little duck guided for ganglers in a tent camp also guided for 8 years at the dsephanie Lake Nwt and also for an operation in Nunavut then I won't mention

[Peace Country]

Originally Posted by 35 whelen

I'm sure glad I did 10 years of guiding 200 miles north of Yellowknife during the peak of the Caribou herds, my best memory is sitting in a herd of about 5,000 couldn't even shoot there was so many around us just sat there all day and listened and watched them, but every year got worse by the 10th year it was tough to find a caribou up there.

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Who did you guide for?

[fishnguy]

^ Didn’t he answer that just above your post?

[Peace Country]

Originally Posted by 35 whelen

I guided for a few I guided at little duck guided for ganglers in a tent camp also guided for 8 years at the dsephanie Lake Nwt and also for an operation in Nunavut then I won't mention

You where on Desteffany Lake with Aurora Caribou camp?

I own the 2 lodges on Lac De Gras lake.

[Tom Cat]

What years were you at Ganglers? We might of worked together.

[35 whelen]

Originally Posted by Peace Country

You where on Desteffany Lake with Aurora Caribou camp?



I own the 2 lodges on Lac De Gras lake.

Yes I work for Greg for 6 or 7 seasons

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[35 whelen]

Originally Posted by Tom Cat

What years were you at Ganglers? We might of worked together.

I guided at Scott Lake 93 94 managed at Wignes Lake 96 98

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[35 whelen]

Originally Posted by 35 whelen

I guided at Scott Lake 93 94 managed at Wignes Lake 96 98

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And did one year of caribou and moose out of the seal River area

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[Tom Cat]

Oh ok that was a couple years before my time there, I did several seasons in caribou and spring bear camps for Ken, don’t miss the guiding much but sure miss that country up there, loved every minute of it, can still smell that tundra in the fall and the years we hit the migration right were unforgettable, but when they vanish that country is desolate lol

[35 whelen]

Originally Posted by Tom Cat

Oh ok that was a couple years before my time there, I did several seasons in caribou and spring bear camps for Ken, don’t miss the guiding much but sure miss that country up there, loved every minute of it, can still smell that tundra in the fall and the years we hit the migration right were unforgettable, but when they vanish that country is desolate lol

You got that right buddy favorite part of my 25-year career of guiding was guiding caribou beautiful country love the Arctic sat in a herd of about 5,000 one day nobody even could shoot there was so many just like ants the good old days

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[35 whelen]

I work for Greg at Aurora from 2001 to 2008

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