"The Government of Yukon has developed a Draft Yukon parks strategy to set the direction for Yukon’s system of territorial parks for the next 10 years. The strategy is about the full range of territorial parks, including wilderness preserves like Ni’iinlii Njik (Fishing Branch), natural environment parks like Tombstone, and recreation parks like Wolf Creek campground. The strategy will provide guidance on managing the parks system to ensure communities across Yukon experience the benefits of parks: healthy land, healthy people, and a healthy economy."
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Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) continues to use First Nations to advance their agenda for regulation over land use that includes banned use.
In their quest Y2Y is now celebrating a signed government land use plan that "protects" 83% of the Peel Watershed. This gives them the 'northern anchor" of their land theft from Yellowstone Park in Wyoming. This plan was signed by the Yukon government, First Nations Na-Cho Nyäk Dun; Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in; Vuntut Gwitchin Government; and Gwich’in Tribal Council. The land is divided up into 16 Landscape Management Units. Six Special Management Areas make up 55 per cent; 4 Wilderness Areas make up 25 per cent; 2 Wilderness Areas – Boreal Caribou designations make up 3 per cent; and 4 Integrated Management Areas make up 17 per cent. Conservation Areas do not allow new industrial land-use dispositions, such as mining; or new surface access, such as a road. Conservations Areas also have three designations: Special Management Areas: 55 per cent of the region will be permanently withdrawn from mineral staking and the issuing new oil-and-gas rights. The region will have many protected areas, and each will have management plans. Wilderness Areas: 25 per cent of the region is withdrawn from mineral staking and the issuing new oil-and-gas rights for a limited time. Boreal Caribou Wilderness Area: 3 per cent of the region is made up of Wilderness Areas with additional requirements for protection including management planning. Integrated Management Areas make up 17% of the region with a variety of land uses and surface areas are allowed. Development will be restricted and impacts limited. Plan recommendations include: Develop a management plan for the Dempster Highway Corridor; delist the Wind River Trail as a road; limit off-road vehicle use to specific locations within the region; ensure new roads are temporary and not for public use; do not allow infrastructure along major rivers; and all parties agree on a process for deciding if a development proposal fits with the plan. It is nothing more than restricted land use that will continue to expand until the whole area is so highly restricted for any use or not allowing any use at all. This is just the beginning. Were Yukon citizens consulted on this? How much further with Y2Y use select groups to achieve their means? Although most Landscape Conservation Cooperatives ended when President Trump stopped their funding, the Northwest Boreal Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NBLCC) seems to still be in business with other funding for an "international landscape" that stretches from the Yukon into Alaska. Many environmental non-governmental organizations regrouped under the Network for Landscape Conservation (NLC). Having gathered up money from foundations, it appears the NLC is spreading some of that money into the Yukon.
With $25,000 over a period of two years, the money will be used to "catalyze an effort to build meaningful engagement with Alaska Native Tribes and Canada’s First Nations...launch an Indigenous Leadership Working Group...and...pursue proactive engagement strategies". Investments are intended to create "a co-leadership model with Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners to address pressing environmental and social needs and secure a healthy, intact, and resilient Northwest Boreal landscape." The NLC is using this money to buy First Nations for their large landscape agenda that eliminates sovereignty. In British Columbia they are using money to end economic activity that supports the community. None of this is consistent with what First Nations want. "Dozens of Indigenous groups are turning forcefully against the anti-pipeline agenda of Greenpeace and other U.S.-funded green and social justice groups." This was reiterated by Eagle Spirit chairman Calvin Helin, “First Nations are completely opposed to government policy being made by foreigners when it impacts their ability to help out their own people”. So NLC, keep your foundation money out of Canada with your goals of destroying the economy of the First Nations, defining what you think their culture should be, and redefining sovereign boundaries. It isn't wanted or needed as they are capable of determining their own future. |