Thank you for a well-written article on this amazing animal (“A quiet goodbye to the Selkirk caribou,” HCN, 5/28/18). Author Ben Long captured my thoughts on how we got them to this place, and the lack of voices for their needs to be heard. I saw them up close just over a decade ago, about four or five caribou. Truly spectacular. It is sad to learn that they are likely to be gone, without, perhaps, an audible whimper.
Martha Jordan
Everett, Washington
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Without a whimper.
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