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When travellers first think of setting foot in the Canadian North, it is often the image of a barren landscape with wolves howling from a distance that draws them in. Within a few days of visiting the image becomes a colourful mosaic of tundra life with winding rivers and lakes, forests and rockfaces; bright purple saxifrage flowers set the scene while a flock of honking sandhill cranes fly over top in V formation, longs legs dangling underneath them. Seeing a 2000 pound woodland bison at the Mackenzie sanctuary proves that 'barren' is not a description suited to the Northwest Territories - dramatic is more appropriate. Destination Canada have chosen herding up to 3000 reindeer as a Signature Canadian Experience and one of the best ways of understanding the Northern way of life. Being so close that you can hear the bulls grunting and seeing the females also shedding their antlers across the landscape, is a pretty unique experience. To spot other wildlife such as bears, wolverines, moose, muskox and lynxes you will need to go to remote locations, though identifying Arctic foxes and lemmings is more common. Black spruce trees and subalpine firs create great hideaways for the woodland caribou that prefer lichen-rich mature forests near marshes and bogs. Birding is also a key attraction as gyrfalcon, yellow billed loons, king eider and snowy owls call the territoty home.
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