NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Max Graham, a writer for High Country News, about Alaska's declining caribou population, and the state's plan to save them by shooting predators like grizzlies and wolves.

When Janet Bavilla was a teenager, it wasn’t hard to find caribou. The animals swept across the land, dozens or even hundreds at a time, passing near her village on Alaska’s Bering Sea coast. On ...

Caribou Booms and Busts Twenty-six years before this moment in September 2025, I first chased caribou on the central Canadian tundra. That was an adventure to the Nunavik region of northern Quebec to ...