I was in Seliwick in April of ‘96 visiting my neighbor’s brother who was a school teacher there. At that time, there were about 800,000 animals in that herd and they were increasing at about 8% a year. A biologist told me they were fearful of a crash. Sounds like it happened.
But there were LOTS of caribou and we harvested quite a few in our 7 day visit. The legal limit was 5 per day.
A very interesting place.
Mackey
