Yukon First Nation wildlife harvest data collection and management : lessons learned and future steps

• Main Author: Lavallée, Michel Thomas
• Other Authors: Clark, Douglas
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 2010
• Subjects: scientific management; harvest surveys; Comanagement; indigenous management; Lake Laberge; Yukon; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-09072010-212729

The Yukon Umbrella Final Agreement was signed in 1993 and Chapter 16 allows Yukon First Nations to govern wildlife harvest on traditional territories. First Nation governments manage wildlife using traditional ecological knowledge and have started to collect harvest data to inventory wildlife use an...