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The US Forest Service is responsible for restoring, sustaining, and enhancing forests and grasslands while providing and sustaining benefits to the American people. Because of these responsibilities, federal scientists and land managers are tasked with reducing the negative effects of climate change on ecosystem function and services, while promoting and enabling beneficial aspects (US Forest Service 2008, 2009).
Among the many recent developments explored in Canada's Changing North is the legal recognition of aboriginal rights by the Canadian state, which has led directly to significant increases in their political and economic power. It also examines how economic development, which has long focused on non-renewable natural resources, particularly minerals, has grown to an enormous scale. Development of arctic oil and gas, which hinges on world supplies and national and international politics, has meant major changes across the North. Some of the new national parks in the Canadian North are already under threat from mineral development. Northern tourism has made it possible for a wide variety of affluent visitors to visit...
L'auteure traite des arrangements de gouvernance décentralisée et des moyens d'action pour la gestion intégrée des bassins hydrographiques existants dans les treize provinces ou territoires, en examinant plus particulièrement les organismes dotés de conseils d'administration qui sont principalement, mais pas uniquement, constitués de personnes de la communauté locale ou régionale. On considère le terme « capacité » dans son sens large, c.-à-d. englobant les dimensions humaines, sociales, institutionnelles et économiques. La recherche reconnaît et décrit 155 organisations formant les assises potentielles d'arrangements de gouvernance à l'échelle nationale selon critères suivants : a) être doté d'un conseil d'administration...
This paper explores how a structured decision process, based on methods from the decision sciences, can contribute to the integration of local and scientific knowledge in environmental decision making. Emphasis is placed on the use of key decision structuring steps and analytical tools to help ensure the systematic treatment of both fact-based and value-based knowledge claims. Practical methods are discussed for communicating and evaluating values and technical information across participants and cultures in ways that are methodologically rigorous and encourage different sources of credible knowledge to be considered on equal footing. Examples are presented from water use planning in British Columbia, Canada, where...
The article comments on the paper "Conservation status as a biodiversity trend indicator: recommendations from a decade of listing species at risk in British Columbia," by J. E. Quayle and L. R. Ramsay in a 2005 issue. It is pointed out that IUCN Red List Index (RLI) overcomes the three problems observed by Quayle and Ramsay. The primary advantage of the RLI is its geographic representativeness because it is based on data for nearly all species in a taxonomic group. Its major disadvantage is its somewhat coarse temporal resolution. However, the RLI and population-trend-based indicators are highly complementary with regards to their geographic representativeness and temporal resolution.
INTRODUCTION Environmental protection of the Arctic –a short history Concerns about contaminants in the Arctic date back at least 30 years, with an increasing and broadening awareness since the early 1970s. In the spring of 1989, Finland proposed a conference on the protection of the Arctic environment. The idea was favorably received by the governments of the other circumpolar countries: Canada, Denmark/Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Soviet Union, and the United States. The first preparatory meetings were held in Rovaniemi, Finland, in September 1989, which started the ‘Rovaniemi process’. One idea agreed upon early was to produce a series of reports concerning the potential pollutants in different parts...
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PURPOSE: The implementation of a management plan is proposed in order to address military uses, economic development, recreation, wildlife habitat, and access in association with the use of the Fort Wainwright Maneuver Area in Alaska. The maneuver area, commonly known as the Yukon Maneuver Area, is a tract of approximately 248,000 acres in the Fairbanks North Star Borough southeast of the city of Fairbanks. It is roughly rectangular in shape, spanning 28 miles east-to-west and 17.5 miles north-to- south; it encompasses much of the land between the Chena and Salcha rivers northeast of the Richardson Highway. Tributaries of the two rivers flow through the area at the bases of 2,000-foot hills, which predominate all...
As a term, sustainability has often come to be adopted as the 'panacea' for many problems without any clear understanding that the solutions will vary given the nature of the problem, the scale involved and the goals and objectives set out. As a result, what has emerged in the literature has been many different 'pictures' of sustainability, all of which may be relevant in certain contexts. This research examined the potential of the concept within the context of Canadian national parks. Emphasis was directed toward understanding, through the perceptions of 'expert' groups knowledgeable about parks, the key elements needed to promote parks as sustainable landscapes. The methodology used consisted of the implementation...
Licensing and permitting procedures are often inconsistent from one province to the next. A more thorough evaluation of the procedures for Northern provinces is available from the Overview Report found at www.ualberta.ca/~ipy. This document outlines what is required of researchers. Additional titles in this series are also accessible on this site. The information included in this release is just a guideline and should not be treated as comprehensive. Contact regions contact information is provided for each province] directly for the most up-to-date information. ... Seven of Canada's ten provinces have significant areas of land in the northern boreal region. The northern areas of all of these provinces are home to...
The report contains many recommendations to improve NWT’s actions on biodiversity over the next ten years. Some of the most important recommendations for each core theme are described here. Species at Risk: Continue to work, primarily through the co-management system, towards management and recovery planning, involving all NWT groups interested in species at risk in the NWT. Protected Areas: Improve coordination among conservation, land use planning and development agencies to increase efficient use of resources and reduce the burden on community capacity. Sustainable Forests: Continue to update forest legislation and harmonize with all applicable legislation,including land claim legislation, to develop better tools...
map background search result map search result map PREPARATION OF APPRAISALS OF NON-FEDERAL AND FEDERAL LANDS FOR A PROPOSED EQUAL VALUE LAND EXCHANGE IN THE YUKON FLATS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, ALASKA BETWEEN DOYON LTD. AND THE US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE (GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES) FORT WAINWRIGHT, YUKON MANEUVER AREA, PROPOSED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN AND FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT, FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH, ALASKA Mining and Canada's national parks--policy options: a case study of Nahanni National Park Reserve FORT WAINWRIGHT, YUKON MANEUVER AREA, PROPOSED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN AND FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT, FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH, ALASKA Mining and Canada's national parks--policy options: a case study of Nahanni National Park Reserve PREPARATION OF APPRAISALS OF NON-FEDERAL AND FEDERAL LANDS FOR A PROPOSED EQUAL VALUE LAND EXCHANGE IN THE YUKON FLATS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, ALASKA BETWEEN DOYON LTD. AND THE US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE (GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES)