What to do about the caribou? Editorial by the British Columbia Magazine
April 17th 2008
Observations from Anita Willis, the editor of British Columbia Magazine.
"I invite our Canadian readers to take a moment to find a quarter. Go on, check your pockets; I’ll wait. On the flip side of Queen Elizabeth II, you’ll find a stag’s head with a towering set of antlers cantilevered over its powerful neck. This is the noble caribou, Rangifer tarandus.
"Right now, holding that coin, you may be as close as you’ll ever come to a caribou. Canada’s icon of the wilderness is in trouble...."
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