This story, The First of Its Kind,” appeared in the February 1972 issue of Outdoor Life. In big-game hunting the best-laid plans may go out the window when an exciting opportunity presents itself.

“The big one is on the left,” my Inuit guide, Amos Irkok, said with a twinge of excitement in his soft voice. I crawled up the back side of a bald, pebble-covered hilltop toward a coffee-table-sized ...

NAKUSP, British Columbia — Six years after the last wild caribou in the Lower 48 was relocated to Canada, conservationists and Inland Northwest tribes see a glimmer of hope less than 100 miles north ...

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 ...