The North Yukon Regional Land Use Planning Commission submitted a Recommended North Yukon Land Use Plan to Yukon Government and Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Government on March 31, 2008. In 2009, they approved the Plan and are now implementing it, with some assistance from the Yukon Land Use Planning Council (see articles below). The Approved Plan is available on the Yukon Government's wetsite here.
With its work complete, the Commission no longer maintains an office or a maintained website. Commission documents are found in the Documents section of this website, here. The Council also provides some of the the Commission's spatial data. When projects are proposed in the North Yukon Planning Region, Council staff provide opinions on the consistency of the projects to the North Yukon Plan.
The area of the North Yukon region when the plan was approved was 55549 km2. However, in 2018 planning region boundaries were revised so that the North Yukon Planning Region expanded southwards. The current area of the region is 60947 km2. The newly added area (aka "the Annex") has not yet been planned.
Commission Website: https://nypc.planyukon.ca/ (not maintained)
Area of region: 60947 km2
The Parties (Yukon and Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Governments) have been working on the implementation of the North Yukon Regional Plan since it was approved. These activities are documented in their annual implementation reports and other documents which will now be posted on our website here. The Parties meet 3-4 times a year to discuss implementation and sometimes include a community information session.
This report describes the methods and results of a pilot study that mapped, evaluated and quantified human-caused disturbances in Land Management Unit (LMU) 9 “Eagle Plains” of the North Yukon Planning Region. It also provides recommendations for how the piloted methods of that study may be applied in other areas of the North Yukon Region and beyond and provides some options and estimated costs to do so.
The North Yukon Regional Land Use Plan was approved in 2009, making it Yukon's first (and only) regional plan to be approved under the Umbrella Final Agreement. Since then, some parts of the plan have been implemented, while others are still in progress. In recent months, we have been requested by the Plan's Parties (Vuntut Gwitchin and Yukon Governments) to assist by providing financial and staff resources to some implementation projects as well as attend implementation meetings between the Parties. Currently, we are involved in two projects that may serve as templates for other planning regions:
Now that the North Yukon Regional Land Use Plan has been approved, it is time to put it into action. The Parties to this plan, the Yukon Government and the government of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, have agreed on some plan implementation tasks. The Umbrella Final Agreement (section 12.7.1) and the Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Act (section 44.1) specify that planning commissions check the conformity of proposed projects to the plan. However, because the North Yukon Planning Commission is no longer maintained, the staff of the Yukon Land Use Planning Council (YLUPC) will provide an opinion as a third party as to whether projects are consistent with the plan. Here's how it works:
An ALCES® landscape computer simulation model was used to explore and better understand potential outcomes of plausible oil and gas, tourism and mining land use scenarios for the North Yukon Planning Region (Table S-1). Land use scenarios, and the detailed parameters for each scenario, were developed by domain experts and through research. A number of different scenarios for each sector were not examined, as the range of plausible scenarios was considered to be relatively low.
The complete document is now available at this link.
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