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Posted on April 11, 2019June 23, 2020 by alcaribousociety

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Please click here for Arrow Lakes News article on the ALCS, published Mar. 21, 2019.

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The Arrow Lakes Caribou Society would like to thank the Nakusp and Area Community Foundation (NACF) for their generous support of the Caribou Maternity Pen Project. The community foundation, which has been contributing towards Nakusp and area community projects for almost 20 years, granted ALCS with funding to buy a metal storage container for the maternity pen site. The storage container now has the pen blind built on top, for the Caribou Shepherd to watch the feeding area, and to record observations of the caribou. The Maternity Pen Project is a recovery effort to help increase the survival rate of the Central Selkirk sub-population of Mountain Woodland Caribou. You can find more information about the maternity pen project at our website: https://arrowlakescaribousociety.com/ And, you can find more information about the Nakusp and Area Community Foundation on their website: https://www.nakuspfoundation.com/
The Arrow Lakes Caribou Society would like to thank @kootenaysavings for their generous cash sponsorship! This donation went towards the coordination of lichen collection events around the Nakusp area, with the collaboration of the Arrow Lakes Cross Country Ski Club. ALCS needs to collect lichen to feed transitioning female caribou in the maternity pen. The pen was constructed above the Nakusp Hot Springs in Winter 2020. The maternity pen will be used by female caribou and their calves to be protected from predators, until the calf is three to five weeks old, upon which they will be released from the pen. Southern Mountain Central Selkirk Caribou eat lichen, and each year, ALCS will need about 115kg of lichen to feed to transitioning caribou in the maternity pen. That’s a lot of lichen! We need your help to collect it, during more community lichen picking events. Find out how you can get involved with ALCS, at https://arrowlakescaribousociety.com/lichen-collection-for-southern-mountain-central-selkirk-caribou/. Thank you again to @kootenaysavings for their cash sponsorship and supporting the Arrow Lakes Caribou Society!
Some friends visiting the Caribou Maternity Pen just north of Nakusp Hot Springs recently. Caught on camera by our surveillance cams.
The Arrow Lakes Caribou Society would like to thank the Nakusp and Area Community Forest (NACFOR) for generously supporting the Central Selkirk Caribou Maternity Pen Project with in-kind donations. The goal of our project is to halt the population decline of the Central Selkirk sub population of Woodland Caribou. The maternity pen project would not have been successful without these donations and ALCS is extremely grateful for NACFOR’s contributions. Thank you very much!
Follow us to see the amazing organizations, people, and companies that have helped us build the caribou maternity pen near Nakusp!
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