Date

March Issue of "ARCTIC"
Volume 59, Number 1
Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)

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The following papers appear in the March 2006 issue of ARCTIC, Journal
of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA).

"A Near-Total Decline in Caribou on Prince of Wales, Somerset, and
Russell Islands, Canadian Arctic"
By: Anne Gunn, Frank L. Miller, Samuel J. Barry, and Alex Buchan

"Tree-Ring Dates for the Maximum Little Ice Age Advance of Kaskawulsh
Glacier, St. Elias Mountains, Canada"
By: Alberto V. Reyes, Brian H. Luckman, Dan J. Smith, John J. Clague,
and Richard D. Van Dorp

"The Nature and Significance of Polar Bear Conservation Hunting in the
Canadian Arctic"
By: M.M.R. Freeman and G.W. Wenzel

"Polar Bear Maternal Den Habitat in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,
Alaska"
By: George M. Durner, Steven C. Amstrup, and Ken J. Ambrosius

"A Review of the Occurrence of Pacific Salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) in the
Canadian Western Arctic"
By: S.A. Stephenson

"Long-Range Transport of Information: Are Arctic Residents Getting the
Message about Contaminants?"
By: Heather Myers and Chris Furgal

"Co-feeding between Svalbard Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta hyperborea)
and Svalbard Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus)"
By: A.O. Pedersen, M. Lier, H. Routti, H.H. Christiansen, and E. Fuglei

"Oilfield Development and Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) Distribution
and Abundance in Central Alaskan Beaufort Sea Lagoons, 1970-2001"
By: Lynn E. Noel, Stephen R. Johnson, and William J. Gazey

"Late Cretaceous Plesiosaur Teeth from Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut,
Canada"
By: Deborah Vandermark, John A. Tarduno, and Donald B. Brinkman

"Offshore Distances of Bowhead Whales (Balaena mysticetus) Observed
during Fall in the Beaufort Sea, 1982-2000: An Alternative
Interpretation"
By: Stephen D. Treacy, Jeffrey S. Gleason and Cleveland J. Cowles

The issue also contains an Arctic Profile of Frank A. Pitelka
(1916-2003) by George O. Batzli and six reviews of northern-related
books.

InfoNorth essays were prepared by the winner of the 2005 Jennifer
Robinson Scholarship and the winner of the 2005 Lorraine Allison
Scholarship:

"Foraging Ecology and Population Dynamics of Collared Pikas in
Southwestern Yukon"
By: Shawn F. Morrison

"Potential Sources of Monomethyl Mercury in Arctic and Subarctic
Seawater"
By: J.L. Kirk

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