Referenced ESRI geodatabase of terrestrial mammals mapping distribution codes for each Ecoregion Level IV in the NWT.

Referenced ESRI geodatabase of terrestrial mammals mapping distribution codes for each Ecoregion Level IV in the NWT.

Range map shapefile for NWT SAR

Label information and location data from various sources with specimens collected in the NWT (1850-current) Compiled by GNWT

Abstract: The NWT Virtual Herbarium was initiated to store information, in a digital form, on plants collected or photographed in the NWT. From 2007 to 2008, almost all the plant specimens available at the Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada herbarium in Ottawa were photographed and the information on each label was entered into a database. The procedures, standards, fields, and update protocols are described. The NWT Virtual Herbarium can be updated and extended to include any other set of photographs and label information of all vascular plant specimens ever collected and stored in a recognized institution with botanical expertise and other available photographs, location information and associated data of vascular plants from the NWT.
Purpose: The aim of the Northwest Territories Virtual Herbarium is to store, in digital form, photographs and label information of all vascular plant specimens ever collected and stored in a recognized institution with botanical expertise and other available photographs, location information and associated data of vascular plants from the NWT.
Supplemental_Information: Carriere et al. 2008.
The NWT Virtual Herbarium. Protocols and Metadata. Manuscript Report ____. ENR. GNWT. Yellowknife. NT

Small mammals and hares play a keystone role in both Arctic and boreal ecosystems. They are a major prey species for many northern carnivores. The cyclic fluctuations in the abundance of small mammals and hares are often repeated in the fluctuations seen in the abundance of their predators.

The small mammal and hare surveys in the Northwest Territories are designed to monitor changes in voles, mice, lemmings, shrews and hares in many sites across all ecozones in the NWT using standard protocols.

Renewable Resource Officers, wildlife co-management boards, government biologists, academic researchers and environmental consultants have been involved with small mammal and hare monitoring since the late 1980s.

From the report: This paper illustrates the potential physical footprint of gas development in three fields within northern Canada’s sedimentary basins: the Mackenzie Delta, Colville Hills and Peel Plateau. In this study ALCES®, a landscape-scale simulation model, was used to estimate the footprint in the three fields of typical gas development over the next 30 years. The model was also used to explore alternative management scenarios that apply several “best practices” currently used in the gas industry.
This project was commissioned by the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC) and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), Yukon and Northwest Territories chapters.

From the report: Communities and infrastructure in the Mackenzie Valley may be impacted by landslides and slope movements. As such, Natural Resources Canada has initiated a regional landslide mapping project in the Mackenzie Valley to i) provide baseline knowledge on types, regional distribution, and controlling and aggravating factors of landslides in a permafrost environment; ii) assess the influence of environmental factors (e.g. forest fire, climate variability, global warming); iii) map and monitor zones of potentially unstable slopes using remote sensing technologies; and iv) map susceptibility to landslides.

This report presents an inventory of 1807 landslides and terrain hazard features (e.g. rock glaciers, karstic depressions) in the Mackenzie Valley between Inuvik and Tulita (Figure 1). The inventory (see Section 3), is accompanied with photographs taken while carrying out field visits. Additional geoscience datasets for 3 sub-regions along the Mackenzie Valley in between Inuvik and Tulita (East of Travaillant Lake, Thunder River, and Mount Morrow) are available in Open File 5738 by Couture et al. (2008).

Recreational potential within and around Nááts’ihch’oh Proposed National Park Reserve, including hiking, canoeing, mountain biking, rock climbing, and access.

Forest fire history by decade within and around Nááts’ihch’oh Proposed National Park Reserve.