REINDEER IX 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 
dregs now occupied 
by reindeer 
Unoccupied 
grazing areas 
Doffed line incloses 
main ran^e of 
wild caribou 
Fig. 1. — Preliminary map of reindeer grazing areas in Alaska, 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 
