scholarly journals Surficial Materials, Kluane National Park, Yukon Territory

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
V N Rampton
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Yukon Territory

National Parks and Native Peoples in Northern Canada, Alaska, and Northern Australia

1981 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Gardner ◽  
J. G. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
Native People ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
Northern Canada

At the very general level, the aim of this paper is to compare the interaction of national parks and native peoples in Northern Canada (Yukon Territory), Alaska, and the Northern Territory of Australia. Currently these areas are subject to increasing land-use pressures from mining, industrial development, the creation of national parks and related reserves, and native attempts to maintain traditional wildlife and renewable resource use. The study focuses on the interactions between national parks and native peoples on the premise that experiences can be compared and problems encountered in one area but possibly avoided in another.The study begins by briefly describing native land-use issues, land-rights arrangements, and organizations, in the Yukon Territory, central Alaska, and Northern Australia. The national park agencies are described, compared, and shown to differ considerably in institutional character, field of management, control of land, and external links with interest groups such as native peoples. Case-studies of the national parks etc. named Kluane (Yukon), Gates of the Arctic (Alaska), and Kakadu (Northern Territory of Australia), are presented to provide more details on similarities and differences in planning, types of tenure, native subsistence activities, and other factors.In the Yukon Territory, neither the national parks agency nor the native people are highly motivated to interact. In contrast, the park agencies and native people in Alaska and the Northern Territory of Australia recognize mutual benefits from interaction—largely as a result of legislation and policies which encourage cooperation. Native involvement officers now facilitate coordination in the Yukon and Alaska. Park agency native employment programmes are proceeding in all three ‘hinterlands’, while native people can own land on which national parks are established in Alaska and the Australian Northern Territory. Only in Australia are native people known to be directly involved in upperlevel national park management. Potential limitations on native subsistence and associated use of national parks range from moderate to severe, and are only defined clearly in Alaska. Lack of definition leads to confusion in deciding upon native use, while exceedingly precise definition precludes flexibility at the park level.A number of aids to a more mutually satisfactory interaction can be identified. One is motivation, or recognition by both parties that there are advantages to consultation and cooperation. Another, not yet achieved in the Yukon, is a land-claims settlement, stating the legislated rights of native peoples in the ‘hinterlands’ and giving them a land-holding and bargaining status which is comparable with that of government agencies. A third aid is comprehensive systematic and regional planning efforts involving opportunities for informed input from all affected parties. Such planning would provide a forum for consideration of a variety of interests, including national parks and native peoples. Finally, satisfactory interaction on the park site could be assisted by clear yet flexible means of deciding upon acceptable native use of parkland, the conservation of wildlife, and associated economic and cultural factors.

scholarly journals New Records of Vascular Plants in the Yukon Territory VI

2004 ◽  
Vol 118 (4) ◽  
pp. 558 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Cody ◽  
Catherine E. Kennedy ◽  
Bruce Bennett ◽  
Phil Caswell
Keyword(s):  
Vascular Plants ◽  
National Park ◽  
New Records ◽  
Camelina Sativa ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
Setaria Viridis ◽  
Armoracia Rusticana ◽  
Field Reconnaissance

Based on field reconnaissance mainly in 2002 in the southern part of the Yukon and particularly in and adjacent to Kluane National Park, information is provided on geographically significant plant occurrences. Six native taxa, Atriplex alaskensis, Claytonia megarrhiza, Corispermum ochotense var. alaskanum, Oxytropis arctica, Polemonium acutiflorum forma lacteum and Polemonium boreale forma albiflorum, and four introduced taxa. Arabis caucasica, Camelina sativa, Senecio eremophilus, and Setaria viridis are reported new to the known flora of the Yukon Territory. Significant range extensions for 158 native and 21 introduced taxa are included. Parrya arctica, Armoracia rusticana, Atriplex patula and Papaver nudicaule ssp. nudicaule are excluded from the Yukon flora.

Origin of a Relict Population of Salvelinus in Bear Creek of the Alsek River Drainage, Yukon Territory

1980 ◽  
Vol 37 (12) ◽  
pp. 2352-2354
Author(s):  
C. B. Sikstrom
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
Dolly Varden ◽  
Salvelinus Malma ◽  
Resident Population ◽  
Dolly Varden Char ◽  
Relict Population ◽  
Bear Creek ◽  
Gill Raker ◽  
Freshwater Resident

A freshwater-resident population of Salvelinus was compared meristically and morphometrically with two forms of Salvelinus described by Cavender (1978). A comparison of the numbers of mandibular pores and branchiostegal rays, and gill raker morphology and head size revealed that the population of Salvelinus in Bear Creek corresponds to Cavender's specific distinction of a form which is generally characterized as anadromous Salvelinus malma. I suggest that the population of Salvelinus in Bear Creek was established from a natural colonization by formerly anadromous Dolly Varden char from the Gulf of Alaska.Key words: Salvelinus, zoogeography, meristics, Yukon Territory, Kluane National Park

Kluane National Park, Yukon territory

1972 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 395-397
Author(s):  
Dorothy Graham
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Yukon Territory

scholarly journals New Records of Vascular Plants in the Yukon Territory VII

2005 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 417 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Cody ◽  
Bruce A. Bennett ◽  
Phil Caswell
Keyword(s):  
Vascular Plants ◽  
National Park ◽  
New Records ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
Field Reconnaissance ◽  
Najas Flexilis ◽  
Polygonum Persicaria ◽  
Leymus Mollis

Based on field reconnaissance mainly in 2003 in Kluane National Park but also many other areas throughout the Yukon, information is provided on geographically significant plant occurrences. Thirteen native taxa, Agrostis humilis, Blysmopsis rufa, Carex bebbii, C. lenticularis var. dolia, C. nigricans, C. sartwellii, C. siccata, Diphasiastrum sitchense, Najas flexilis, Oxytropis arctica var. arctica, Oxytropis arctica var. murrayi, Saxifraga nelsoniana ssp. carlottae and Swertia perennis and two introduced taxa, Bromus japonicus and Leymus mollis ssp. mollis s.l. are reported new to the flora of the Yukon Territory. Significant range extensions for 109 native and eight introduced taxa are included and three species, Clematis occidentalis, Polygonum persicaria, and Verbena hastata are deleted from the flora.

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