BC Government Species At Risk brochure on Mountain Caribou. 6 pages, 1999. Briefest summary of the provincial situation.
http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/wld/documents/caribou.pdf

Mechanisms Underlying the Decline of Mountain Caribou in British Columbia. Heiko Wittmer, Ph.D. thesis. University of British Columbia, 2004. A detailed analysis of mountain caribou populations as well as an analysis of woodland caribou in general.

Strategy for Recovery of Mountain Caribou in British Columbia. BC Ministry of Water, Land Air Protection, 85 pages, 2002.
http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/wld/documents/mtcaribou_rcvrystrat02.pdf

BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer
http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/atrisk/toolintro.html
Launching the Explorer and searching with the word "caribou" pulls up a summary of the three groups of caribou in BC, and leads to downloadable reports on each population. Explains the various types of at-risk lists.

International Mountain Caribou Technical Committee www.imctc.com
An international, multi-agency group of researchers, biologists, resource managers, industry representatives, and other concerned people interested in recovering the endangered mountain woodland caribou in the area south of Nelson including parts of the states of Washington and Idaho.

Mountain Caribou Project - International environmentalist group based in Nelson, BC and Bellingham, Washington. www.mountaincaribou.org

Endangered Species and Organisms in British Columbia – A website for all species.
http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/atrisk/

Old Forest Ecosystem Study Unit – Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program, 1996. Developed for BC grade seven science curriculum, it examines the ecosystem of an old forest using a cedar-hemlock forest and mountain caribou as examples. Distributed to all school resource centres in the Columbia Basin. Download key lesson plans at http://www.livinglandscapes.bc.ca/cbasin/oldgrowthforest/index.html

The Effects of Human-related Harassment on Caribou - by Lara Webster for the BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protetction, 1997, 28 pages.
http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/car/resinv/wldinv/inventory/caribou/mtncar/harass/impacts.pdf

British Columbia's Mountain Caribou: Last Chance for Conservation? - Forest Practices Board Special Report. 2004. 26 pages. (691KB PDF format)
 

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