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Title: The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin

Author: Francis Harper

Release date: September 14, 2010 [eBook #33721]
Most recently updated: January 7, 2021

Language: English

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Cover A Caribou buck signaling with a sprawling posture of the left hind leg. Drawing by Earl L. Poole; based upon a motion-picture film taken August 24, 1947, near the Windy River post.

THE
BARREN GROUND CARIBOU
OF KEEWATIN

 
see caption

square inset rest of map

Map 1. The Windy River area at the northwestern extremity of Nueltin Lake, Keewatin. (Most of the smaller features bear merely local or unofficial names.)

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THE
BARREN GROUND
CARIBOU
OF KEEWATIN

BY
FRANCIS HARPER

 
 

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE · KANSAS
University of Kansas
Museum of Natural History
EDITOR: E. RAYMOND HALL
Miscellaneous Publication No. 6, pp. 1-164, 28 figs., 1 map
Published October 21, 1955

 
 

Means for publication were supplied by:
National Science Foundation
Wildlife Management Institute
American Committee for International Wildlife Protection

 
 

PRINTED IN U.S.A.

THE ALLEN PRESS
Lawrence, Kansas
1955