REINDEEE IIT ALASKA. 



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Reindeer are attached to their accustomed haunts, and when well 

 located on a range will unerringly return to it if moved away. With 

 change in seasons, unless restrained, they instinctively seek their 

 favorite winter, fall, or summer pastures. In the choice of summer 

 pasturages, such reindeer pests as mosquitoes and warble flies play 



Fig. 1. — Preliminary map of reindeer grazing areas in Alaslia, showing- areas now partly 

 occupied by herds of reindeer and areas not yet occupied but suitable for reindeer graz- 

 ing. It should be understood that the grazing areas indicated are approximate only 



. and will be largely modified by more detailed investigations. On the Pribilofs there 

 are two small Government-owned herds, and a small herd is on Atka Island, in the 

 Aleutian Chain, not on the map. The area inclosed by the dotted line shows range 

 reserved for wild caribou. 



an important part, causing the reindeer to seek the wind-swept areas 

 adjoining the beach along the coast, and the wind-swept ridges and 

 low mountain tops in the interior. 



In the arctic habitat a range must be selected having available 

 for winter grazing an area not subject to periodic crustings of the 



