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Biographical summary of report writer(s)

Anne Gunn (B.A., Ph.D., Independent consultant, Salt Spring Island, BC). Anne has over 30 years of experience with caribou field studies, management and research in northern Canada. She has experience with caribou status assessment and recovery planning and has considerable field experience with Barren-ground Caribou.

Kim Poole (M.Sc., R.P.Bio., Aurora Wildlife Research, Nelson, BC). Kim has 30 years of wildlife research and management experience in northern and western Canada, 15 years of which was spent in Yellowknife with the territorial government. He has considerable experience with caribou in both British Columbia and NWT/Nunavut, having worked on impact assessments, movement and distribution modelling, survey design and implementation, surveys, and habitat studies.

Don Russell (M.Sc.). Don has been a caribou researcher his whole career (over 30 years). He spent 10 years on the Porcupine Caribou Management Board, 5 years on the Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope) and served as the Canadian co-chair of the International Porcupine Caribou Board for 6 years. His major focus throughout his research career was to understand the factors that drive caribou ecology and population size and how these factors could be impacted by climate change and development. Since leaving the government in 2006, Don has coordinated the CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment (CARMA) Network, realizing the value of cooperative sharing and multidisciplinary collaboration.

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