Being Caribou : Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd

from abbylibrarian

Author Karsten Heuer and his wife followed a migrating herd of caribou for five months in order to record their story and persuade people not to destroy their calving ground to dig for oil. They had to survive on their own, trekking after the caribou on foot, as the caribou made their way to the ...

from scote23

A quick read that will teach you a little about caribou migration. It has lots of pretty photographs

from LoriOrtega

Non-Fiction: Picturebook Heuer, Karsten Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd. Walker & Co., 2007. 48p. Middleschool and above Karsten Heuer and his wife, Leanne, follow the caribou on their yearly migration from Northwestern Canada to the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Re...

from MandaW

This book was very insightful. I found it interesting how two people followed caribou for 5 months! That is a pretty cool story. 4 stars.

from bearpacker

Personal memoirs of trekking along the path of the Pinecone Caribou Herd (120,000+) as they move to spring calving grounds along the Arctic Ocean coast, as they have done for thousands of years. Done as research to support reasons for not allowing US oil exploration at the same coastal refuge are...