In 2003, Woodland Caribou were listed as threatened under the Species at Risk Act, S.C. 2002, c. 29 (SARA). As such, a recovery for the species was to have been prepared by the federal Minister of Environment (MEO) by 2007. Published in the Canada – Oil & Gas section of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation's Mineral Law Newsletter, Volume 28, Number 4, 2011.