Conservation

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Dawson Regional Land Use draft plan has innovative components for wetlands

The Dawson Regional Land Use Planning Commission released its final draft on June 15 and Sebastion Jones, a fish, wildlife and habitat analyst for the Yukon Conservation Society said it’s a good start

 

A file photo of grizzly bear along the highway outside Dawson City. Yukon conservation officers euthanized a grizzly bear Jan. 15 that was originally sighted near Braeburn. (Alistair Maitland/Yukon News file)

Male grizzly euthanized near Braeburn

Yukon conservation officers have euthanized a grizzly bear that was originally sighted…

 

Norman Barichello was awarded the 2020 Gerry Couture Stewardship Award by the Yukon Conservation Society. (Submitted)

Norman Barichello receives 2020 Gerry Couture Stewardship Award

Conservation has been the focus of Barichello’s career since the 1970s

 

CPAWS Yukon, Yukon Conservation Society encouraged by territory’s parks strategy

The conservation manager for CPAWS Yukon and executive director of the Yukon…

Local musician releases charity album for digital download

The album is a tribute to the Beaver River watershed and front-line health-care workers

More than the ‘bear police’: An afternoon with Yukon conservation officers

“Not everyone gets to handle a live grizzly bear or an orphaned moose.”

Despite strong Alaska numbers, Yukon First Nations reporting low chinook returns

‘We don’t want to be like the cod fishery in the East Coast’

Yukon on pace for record bear bodycount

Nearly 50 bears killed through early August