Caribou Herd Holds Its Own at Adak
Adak’s experiment in caribou
transplanting seems to be a suc
cess. At least this is the word re
ceived at Navy headquarters here
from a group of American military
men and two Canadian biology
students who spent four days with
the frolicking, almost tame beasts.
The animals are the survivors of
70 barren ground caribou calves
rounded up on the Alaskan main
land in a joint Army-Navy-Air
Force-Marine Corps and Fish &
Wildlife Service effort in 1958 and
1959 to stock the barren Aleutian
island with big game for recrea
tional hunting by military person
nel stationed there and as a food
source in the event of an emer
gency.
Many of the shaggy animals were
inspected at close range by the
Adak based Marine and Navy team
which escorted the two students
to the caribou’s grassy, almost in
accessible sanctuary on the west
end of the island.
The party consisted of officer-in
charge 1st Lieutenant Terry Tur
ner, USMC, Privates First Class
C. E. Cosgrove, Jr., B. Boyland, and
R. B. Green, Navy photographer
H. A. Burian and Navy corpsman
R. L. Russell.
The Canadians were Tom Wid
dowson and Jerry Vantets, both of
the Institute of Oceanography, Uni
versity of British Columbia.
Not all of the 24 caribou trans
planted from their range on the
Alaskan mainland in 1958 and 1959
were spotted by the group. How
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ever, those that were seen appear
ed to be thriving in their new
home on Adak, the report said.
The biggest herd observed by
the team consisted of 13 animals—
all of them “obviously yearlings”
from the 1959 transplant. For some
reason they have not joined up
with the herd of 10 caribou which
was transplanted the year before.
Only three of the 1958 herd were
observed at close range. They were
two bulls, a cow with a calf esti
mated to be about two months old.
Two other large bulls were seen
on the hills overlooking the ocean
by part of the group shortly after
they had begun their boat trip
back to the Adak naval station.
As there are no roads to the
west end of Adak, the military
civilian group travelled by Navy
tug boat from the naval station to
an anchorage in the Argonne chan
nel, Bay of Islands, and used small
boats to land on Unalga Bight.
It was in this isolated vicinity
the young caribou had been releas
ed in 1958 and 1959 after several
weeks of barnyard care by volun
teers in the Adak Marine Barracks
following shipment from the main
land in a (Navy aircraft.
After camp and radio communi
cations were established with the
main base, the men fanned out in
search of the animals. Much evi
dence of their being in the area
was found—but no caribou.
An aircraft from the Naval Sta
tion took up the search, but even
with this airborne aide a herd was
not located until the afternoon of
the following day. They were the
13 yearlings.
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