Points of Land. WRRB Newsletter

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Welcome to the first issue of our e-newsletter, Points of Land. Notes from the Wek’èezhìı Renewable Resources Board! We’re excited about letting you know about our work and our involvement with various wildlife issues and projects. We've also been updating our website and will continue to add to it with new information, photos and stories --and we're working on our new Facebook page. Visit us on Facebook by clicking on the button here or on our website.
We've featured a few news stories here. You can find more on our website at wrrb.ca. In this issue, we go from tundra to watershed and from bison to boreal caribou, tracking some of the WRRB's activities over the past few months.
We hope you enjoy our newsletter. Let us know what you think or if you have any story ideas for a future issue. We welcome photo submissions that will help us tell our story.
In the meantime, find out where our newsletter's name came from here.

Photo Caption: WRRB Board members from left to right: Charlie Jeremick'ca, Bruce MacDonald, Grant Pryznyk, Jonas Lafferty, Joseph Judas (Chair), Archie Wetrade, Charlie Rabesca, Steven Matthews. See story below for a photo of our newest Board member Suzanne Carrière.

Tłįcho Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring Project

Water is a precious commodity for people---and fish. Are Wek’èezhìı’s waters clean and its fish safe to eat? The Tłįcho Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring Project is developing tools to monitor this important environment –to watch and understand from two ways of knowing: Tłįcho and scientific. One lake near one Tłįcho community is studied each summer: this year, the project set up a fish camp off an island near Wekweètì. Read more and check out our Tłįcho Fish Guide!

Learning More about Boreal Caribou and Habitat

Northerners are aware that the some barren ground caribou herds have seen declining numbers in recent years, but how our boreal caribou doing? In December, 2012, boreal caribou were assessed as threatened in the NWT. We need to learn more about these caribou to manage and protect them for the future. Read about the research we're doing here and check out the Boreal Habitat and Habitat Use in Wek'eezhii Report

Bathurst Caribou Calving Ground Survey 2012

The new population estimate for the Bathurst Caribou was released last fall. Our wildlife management biologist participated in the GNWT's aerial survey of the herd on its calving grounds in June. Read more.

Tundra Science Camp 2012

Take a trip to the tundra to read about how high school students are learning about a unique environment from scientists, environmental educators and Dene elders. WRRB wildlife management biologist Karin Clark was one of the instructors at GNWT's Tundra Ecological Research Station this summer. Read more.

Welcome to the Newest Member on the WRRB!

Welcome to our new Board member, Suzanne Carrière! As Wildlife Biologist (Biodiversity) for ENR, Government of the Northwest Territories, Suzanne provides overall direction on biodiversity issues in the territory --and will be a great asset to the Board. Read more.
Photo Caption: Suzanne leading a nature walk along Frame Lake Trail in recognition of National Tree Day

Welcome to the first issue of our e-newsletter!