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Show CARIBOU HERDS ROAM NORTHLAND 4, Millions of people in American never saw a deer out of capitivity. Yet, a (few hundred miles north of our noth-ern noth-ern boundary, a member of the deer .family lives in countless numbers. This Is the caribou. Descriptions of the vast caribou herds of northern Canada give you visions vis-ions of the buffalo that covered the western prairies a half century and more ago. Attempts have been made by Hudson Bay Co. factors and hardy huntsmen who penetrate their country, to estimate the numbers of caribou and figures run as high as 25 millions. There has even been talk of starting start-ing a caribou meat industry. Their country is, roughly, between the easlern Alaskan border and Hudson Bay, a territory of two million square miles, but they range south of that frequently and also Alaskan officials have reported visits of Immense herds of caribou into that territory in certain cer-tain years. This deer's country Is a great wilder-incss wilder-incss of forests and hog hog in summer. sum-mer. He feeds on marsh vegetation in the summer and in winter on lichens lich-ens which survive despite snow and ice. Caribou spend the winter in the southern part of its territory and migrate mi-grate northward, even to the Arctic seas, in summer. During the trip southward in the fall, the animals so cocr the country that hundreds and thousands are always in sight, day and night, wherever you may be. There are several families of caribou, cari-bou, one of which up to the middle of last century, lived as far south as Colorado, Pennsylvania and Connecticut Connecti-cut This species is still found occasionally occa-sionally in Maine, but mostly in southern south-ern Canada. Newfoundland has a white! caribou family. Caribou has large, round hoofs, surrounded by a wide, thick tuft of hair, tho- whole making a perfect snowshoe. 00 |