Traffic Jam
from the Canadian
National Post
bq. The world's largest herd of caribou is using a major highway for its annual migration this year, causing unprecedented traffic tie-ups in Labrador that may last well into next spring.
bq. The George River herd, which numbers about 800,000 free-roaming caribou, migrates from the northernmost reaches of Quebec to the Labrador Sea at this time each year, but the final stretch of this year's trek has been dramatically altered by a stretch of unseasonably warm weather.
bq. The result is that about 15,000 caribou are routinely stopping traffic along the Trans-Labrador Highway between Churchill Falls and the Ossokmanuan Reservoir.
Posted by DaveH at November 17, 2003 12:56 PM