New Digital Systems Sharpen Alaska Caribou Counts
![Aerial count of the Western Arctic Caribou herd, 2011. (Jim Dau / ADF&G) New Digital Systems Sharpen Alaska Caribou Counts](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/westerncaribouherd.jpg)
(Fairbanks) — Counting caribou in Alaska’s largest herds has become more effective, thanks to a pair of newly acquired digital aerial camera systems. The systems replace World War II-era black-and-white film cameras previously used since the 1970s and enabled biologists last summer to pinpoint numbers for the Porcupine, Fortymile, Central Arctic, Teshekpuk, and Western Arctic […]