Session Four - Panel Discussion: Human developments and their effects on caribou

Abstract

The First North American Caribou Workshop held in Whitehorse in September 1983 selected the theme "Caribou and Human Activity" to focus attention on this important and sometimes controversial subject. The purpose of the panel discussion during the 8th North American Caribou Workshop was to update our experience on human developments and their impacts on caribou and examine how we have progressed over the last 15 years. We organized these discussions to contrast the longer term exposure to human activity experienced in Norway to the more modest impacts experienced in North America. Panel members, representing a variety of areas of background and perspectives, were asked to open discussions on particular issues within their experience. They were advised that an open discussion session would follow their presentations and involve all the participants at the Workshop as well as interested persons from the general public. Panel members were Jonathan Colman (Biology

Caribou response to human activity: research and management

“…Finally, I would refer the reader to "Panel Discussion: Human Developments and their effects on Caribou" summarized by Farnell (2000). If one specifically inserts the subject of "Research and Management" into this summary, especially into the topic covered by Stephen Murphy (pp.…”