[bert]

......Reindeer would’ve thrived there.....

It turns put they would not. here is a very good and funny reason.

I recently visited Alaska where a prominent tourist menu item is reindeer sausage. It is pretty much ordinary sausage with about 5% reindeer meat.

The greal Alaska reindeer raising venture failed. They cannot raise domesticated reindeer in Alaska because.......

the females runoff with caribou males. The herds are depleted and gone before they can be harvested and raise younguns.

[mamelukesabre]

That’s pretty weird. I never would’ve thought that the females of one species would prefer males of another species over their own males.

In that case, they would’ve had to do what the white man did in the lower 48...exterminate the wild herds to make way for their imported domestic herds.