At the moment the CBC website has an article about protecting caribou habitat from snowmobilers. The government has a scheme to do this by using gps tracking collars on the few remaining caribou to inform snowmobilers where they should not go. Comments on the article are still open.

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Members of two B.C. Interior snowmobile clubs will get access to parts of the province's backcountry that were previously off limits, as provincial biologists use GPS to track the movements of the dwindling caribou herd that relies on the rugged habitat.

The access will be based on maps updated daily to show which areas snowmobilers can use within the Central Selkirk Snowmobile Management Area, which is near Nakusp, about 150 kilometres north of Castlegar.

The area was closed to snowmobiling in an effort to save the threatened Central Selkirk caribou herd. Provincial biologists counted 227 animals in the herd in 1997, but this year they found only 25.

Full Article:  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/central-selkirk-caribou-gps-1.5384921?fbclid=IwAR3zQr8-REtkaLXILQiMeNgIpgwTetDBS-pF1p6DjSWMWam96VFIHLYkhRI#