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Resources

Description: 

Community Wildfire Protection Plans are developed to provide practical and operational wildland/urban interface risk mitigation strategies to reduce the threat of wildfire to developments within the community. CWPP

Publication date: 
September 2021
Resource Category: 
Fire, Forest resources
Resource Type: 
Plans
Type of resource: 
File

Aklavik CWPP (pdf/1.6 MB)
Description: 

Community wildfire protection plan for Aklavik.

Publication date: 
September 2021
Resource Category: 
Fire, Forest resources
Resource Type: 
Plans
Type of resource: 
File

Aklavik CWPP (pdf/1.6 MB)
Description: 

Notice of aircraft change form for companies provided aircraft services for the wildland fire season.

Publication date: 
April 2021
Resource Category: 
Fire, Forest resources
Resource Type: 
Forms and applications
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Notice of crew change form for companies provided aircraft services for the wildland fire season.

Publication date: 
April 2021
Resource Category: 
Fire, Forest resources
Resource Type: 
Forms and applications
Type of resource: 
File

Forest Health News 2019 (pdf/2.99 MB)
Description: 

Articles about forest health in 2019 in the NWT

  • En anglais seulement
Publication date: 
September 2020
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Documents
Type of resource: 
File

Forest Health News 2019 (pdf/2.99 MB)
Description: 

This brochure describes restrictions on aircraft operation around wildfires.

Publication date: 
January 2020
Resource Category: 
Fire, Forest resources
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 
Publication date: 
January 2020
Resource Category: 
Fire, Forest resources
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

The 2018-2019 North Slave Region Operations Report shares information on collaborative actions taken by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) and the Tłı̨chǫ Government over the past year to support barren-ground caribou recovery in the North Slave Region.

Publication date: 
December 2019
Resource Category: 
Forest resources, Monitoring, Research and data, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Le Rapport 2018-2019 sur les opérations dans la région du Slave Nord présente des informations sur la collaboration entre le ministère de l’Environnement et des Ressources naturelles (MERN) et le gouvernement tłı̨cho˛ au cours de la dernière année pour appuyer le rétablissement du caribou de la toundra dans la région du Slave Nord.

Publication date: 
December 2019
Resource Category: 
Forest resources, Monitoring, Research and data, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Barren-ground Caribou Collaring, Enhanced North Slave Wolf Harvest Incentive Program and the 2019 Wildfire Season

Publication date: 
December 2019
Resource Category: 
Forest resources, Monitoring, Research and data, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Reports and Studies
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Chaque année, le ministère de l’Environnement et des Ressources naturelles (MERN) effectue en priorité des relevés aériens des forêts d’épinettes matures, surtout parce qu’il s’agit d’un hôte privilégié par le ravageur qui cause le plus de dommages aux TNO, à savoir la tordeuse des bourgeons de l’épinette (Choristoneura fumiferana).

Publication date: 
June 2019
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources, Monitoring
Resource Type: 
Documents
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Fire is a natural and important part of the boreal forest ecosystem. Northern plants and animals have adapted to the cycles of fire and regrowth, and barren-ground caribou have co-existed with the effects of forest fires on their winter range for thousands of years.

Publication date: 
June 2019
Resource Category: 
Fire, Forest resources, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File

Forest Health News 2018 (pdf/3.98 MB)
Description: 

Newsletter for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) explaining how they conducts annual aerial surveys in areas occupied by mature spruce forests as a priority, mostly because of their significance as a preferred host for the most serious insect pest in the NWT.

Publication date: 
June 2019
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources, Monitoring
Resource Type: 
Documents
Type of resource: 
File

Forest Health News 2018 (pdf/3.98 MB)
Description: 

The Forest Management Division (FMD) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) is responsible for monitoring forest health conditions across the NWT to ensure the forest has the capacity for renewal after a wide range of disturbances, and is able to retain its ecological resiliency while meeting the current and future needs of NWT residents.

Publication date: 
June 2019
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources, Monitoring
Resource Type: 
Reports and Studies
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Les incendies sont un élément normal et important de l’écosystème de la forêt boréale. La flore et la faune nordiques se sont adaptées au cycle de la destruction par le feu et de la repousse, et, depuis des milliers d’années, les caribous de la toundra composent avec les répercussions des feux de forêt sur leur aire d’hivernage.

Publication date: 
June 2019
Resource Category: 
Fire, Forest resources, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File

Forest Act - Fact Sheet (pdf/4.59 MB)
Description: 

The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) is developing a new Forest Act to amend and combine the existing Forest Management Act and the Forest Protection Act.

Publication date: 
April 2019
Resource Category: 
Forest resources, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines
Resource Type: 
Informational materials
Type of resource: 
File

Forest Act - Fact Sheet (pdf/4.59 MB)
Description: 

Plain language summary of the Forest Act

Publication date: 
April 2019
Resource Category: 
Forest resources, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines
Resource Type: 
Documents
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

A summary of what we heard during public engagement on the Forest Act.

Publication date: 
March 2019
Resource Category: 
Fire, Forest resources, Legislation, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines
Resource Type: 
Reports and Studies
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Forest health facts and highlights for the Northwest Territories for 2017, along with a conversation with Roger Brett, the Forest Health Supervising Technician of the Natural Resources Canada – Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, about changes to NWT forests over the last 25 years.

Publication date: 
April 2018
Resource Category: 
Forest resources
Resource Type: 
Documents
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Annual report by the Forest Management Division of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources on forest health conditions across the NWT. The forest health program monitors whether or not the forest has the capacity for renewal after a wide range of disturbances, for the retention of its ecological resiliency while meeting current and future needs of NWT residents. The focus of the forest health program has been on monitoring insect and disease impacts in the NWT forests. However, since 2015, FMD has also been recording abiotic disturbances to address the uncertainty of forest ecosystem response to a changing climate. Examples of abiotic disturbances recorded during monitoring surveys include: drought symptoms (reddening of foliage, sun scalding scars, stunted and gnarled foliage), flooding, wind and snow damage, land slumps, and permafrost related disturbance (“drunken forest” phenomenon). General decline of some tree species is also tracked. 

Publication date: 
March 2018
Resource Category: 
Forest resources
Resource Type: 
Reports and Studies
Type of resource: 
File

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