Garbage removed from Frame Lake during the lake clean-up day

• Main Author: Campbell, Sandy
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Water pollution - Frame Lake; Yellowknife; NWT; Aktat - Piksauyak (qivs); Lake restoration - Frame Lake; Iktat - Pichaaq (qivu); Garbage - Frame Lake; Northwest Territories
• Online Access: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/7ef179a4-0873-4813-99e2-2591daa94c9a; https://doi.org/10.7939/R39Z90C90

Frame Lake in Yellowknife, NWT was, historically, a Dene fish camp. Since about 1930, the lake has been steadily polluted until, today, winter oxygen levels are too low to support a fish population. Frame Lake is a dead lake. A collaboration of interested groups including Northwest Territories Environment and Natural Resources and the City of Yellowknife are now working together to reclaim the lake. Saturday July 11, 2015 was a lake and shoreline clean up day. The garbage in this photograph was some of that removed from the lake that day.