Caribou, it turns out, can be fussy. “They’re picky about what they eat,” says Carmen Richter, a biologist and citizen of the Saulteau First Nations in British Columbia. “They definitely let us know what’s acceptable.” For nine years, Richter has been a part of an intensive caribou recovery effort, a collaboration spearheaded by the Saulteau and West Moberly First Nations, neighboring communities that live across a lake from one another, a few miles north of Chetwynd, British Columbia. Richter is in charge of gathering lichen for the caribou cows and…
