Project Details

Name:	1967-ongoing - Caribou - Population Assessment - Itcha-Ilgachuz, Rainbows - Cariboo Region
ID:	5955
Coordinator:	Carolyn Shores; Nicola Dodd
Funding Agency:
Region:	Cariboo
Security:	Normal

Surveys (32 records)

Survey Name	Survey Intensity	Inventory Method	Target Taxa (Species Code / Scientific Name / English Name)  * = Primary Focus
2021 - Caribou - Aerial Late Winter Recruitment - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Relative Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
1978-1987 - Caribou - Aerial Rut Composition - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Relative Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
1994-2001 - Caribou - Aerial Rut Composition - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Relative Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2012 - Caribou - Aerial Post-Calving Population Count & Recruitment-MRR - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2012-2015 - Caribou - Aerial Late Winter Recruitment - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Relative Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2013 - Caribou - Aerial Rut Composition - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Relative Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2014 - Caribou - Aerial Post-Calving Population Count & Recruitment-MRR - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2014 - Caribou - Aerial Rut Composition - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Relative Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2016 - Caribou - Aerial Rut Population Count & Composition - Rainbows	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2017 - Caribou - Aerial Post-Calving Population Count & Recruitment - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2018-2019 - Caribou - Aerial Post-Calving Population Count & Recruitment-MRR - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2020 - Caribou - Aerial Post-Calving Population Count & Recruitment-MRR - Itcha-Ilgachuz, Rainbows	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2007 - Caribou - Aerial Rut Composition - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Relative Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2007-2008 - Caribou - Aerial Rut Population Count & Composition - Rainbows	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2007-2010 - Caribou - Aerial Post-Calving Population Count & Recruitment - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2010 - Caribou - Aerial Late Winter Recruitment - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Relative Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
1996-2004 - Caribou - Aerial Late Winter Recruitment - Itcha-Ilgachuz, Rainbows	Relative Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
1995-2001 - Caribou - Aerial Rut Population Count & Composition - Rainbows	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
1996-2003 - Caribou - Post-Calving Population Count & Recruitment-MRR - Itcha-Ilgachuz, Rainbows	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
1985-1988 - Caribou - Post-Calving Population Count & Recruitment-MRR - Itcha-Ilgachuz, Rainbows	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
1986-1987 - Caribou - Aerial Rut Population Count & Composition - Rainbows	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
1988-1992 - Caribou - Aerial Post-Calving Population Count & Recruitment - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
1994-1995 - Caribou - Aerial Post-Calving Population Count & Recruitment - Itcha-Ilgachuz, Rainbows	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
1967-1977 - Caribou - Aerial Reconnaissance - Rainbows	Presence/Not detected (possible)		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
1973-1975 - Caribou - Ground Reconnaissance - Rainbows	Presence/Not detected (possible)		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
1973-1988 - Caribou - Aerial Late Winter Recruitment - Itcha-Ilgachuz, Rainbows	Relative Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
1974-1977 - Caribou - Population Review-Expert Knowledge - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
1978-1984 - Caribou - Aerial Post-Calving Population Count & Recruitment - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2022 - Caribou - Aerial Late Winter Recruitment - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Relative Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2023 - Caribou - Aerial Late Winter Recruitment - Itcha-Ilgachuz, Rainbows	Relative Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2023 - Caribou - Aerial Post-Calving Population Count & Recruitment - Itcha-Ilgachuz	Absolute Abundance		M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*
2021 - Caribou - Aerial Post-Calving Population Count & Recruitment - Itcha-Ilgachuz			M-RATA / Rangifer tarandus / Caribou*

Documents (3 records) Display All

Report	Publish Year	Description	Filename
Itcha Ilgachuz Caribou Herd: Late Winter Recruitment Survey - 2010	2010	We flew on March 9, 2010 for 6.8 hours (4.8 of actual survey) with Highland Helicopters. We were unable to locate any caribou. Zero. We covered the known winter range, based on historical surveys and saw old tracks that were very melted out. We did not see any fresh caribou tracks. We also flew over an area where caribou are not usually located, but sightings have been trickling in from locals (anecdotal only); we saw lots of tracks, but were unable to identify the species. It was difficult to differentiate caribou track from moose, cattle, or horse due to the melted state of the tracks and lack of recent snow in the past few weeks. While looking for caribou in dog-hair pine is like finding a needle in a haystack, I would have thought we would have seen at least one caribou. We can say that the caribou appear to be doing things differently in the past couple of years, as recent surveys (i.e. post-calving) are 'atypical' compared to historic surveys from the 1990 and early 2000s. It is possible that the warm winter has resulted in snow conditions that are unfavourable for cratering, such that the melt-and-thaw has created a hard crust that caribou have difficulty breaking through to access terrestrial lichen. We thought the caribou may have moved to areas where they could feed on arboreal lichen, however our recce flight into those areas did not show any fresh sign either. In hindsight, we wish we had landed the helicopter to see how hard the snow was, and whether any tracks were visible on the snow crust...but we didn't. Regardless of this, we still would not have been able to locate any caribou from the air if tracks were invisible to us. In the amount of flight time we had available, we covered a lot of ground. Survey map of flight route overlaid with winter range and habitat suitability mapping needs to be completed and filed.	wsi_5955_rpt_2010.pdf (172 KB)
Field Data	Publish Year	Description	Filename
		Point data for the 2010 Aerial Late Winter Recruitment survey formatted for entry into SPI	wsi_5955_dct_2010.xlsm (243 KB)
GIS Spatial File	Publish Year	Description	Filename
		Spatial lines of the 2010 Flightlines	wsi_5955_spl_2010.zip (9 KB)