BC Parks, Porcupines, and Chicken Wire
On some of the pages for the parks in BC, the authors say that porcupines are a problem and that one should put chicken wire around the vehicle so that the animals do not chew on the rubber hoses and ...
Forum Discussion
profdant139 wrote:
Sue, I am intrigued -- how could it be that deer are recent arrivals in the Yukon??
Cougar, coyote, mule deer and white tailed deer are 'recent' arrivals.
Speculation seems to be the milder climate is enabling these animals to move northward. Some speculate the cougars and coyotes are following the deer.
White tailed deer maybe started moving in during the 1970s.
Mule deer in the 1990s. When I was a kid, we never saw deer. Now there's deer living on and around our property, sharing the area with the elk herd that also ranges through here.
Quoting from this article
http://journals.sfu.ca/cfn/index.php/cfn/article/viewFile/434/434
Approximately one-third of the recent terrestrial mammals of
the Yukon originated in Beringia; the remainder are southern immigrants.
Ranges of some species in the Yukon will likely grow with anthropogenic habitat changes and climate warming (e.g., Mule Deer), while others may contract (e.g., Caribou).
