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The area is a significant waterfowl breeding ground, and after a proposal to flood the Yukon Flats via a dam on the Yukon River was turned down, the Yukon Flats were deemed worthy of protection. On 1 December 1978, US President Jimmy Carter designated the Yukon Flats as a National Monument based on the Antiquities Act of 1906.
The Yukon Flats are a critical waterfowl breeding ground due to the large area of wetland provided by the estimated 40,000 small lakes and streams in the area. In recognition of this fact, the area is protected under the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Yukon Flats cabin Small hidden lake on Yukon Flats. The Yukon Flats straddle the Arctic ...
This is a list of protected areas of Yukon. The Yukon , formerly called Yukon Territory and sometimes referred to as just Yukon [ 1 ] is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories . It also is the least populated province or territory in Canada, with a population of 35,874 people as of the 2016 Census.
Ivvavik National Park (/ ˈ iː v ə v ɪ k / EE-və-vik) [2] is a national park of Canada located in the Yukon.Initially named "Northern Yukon National Park," the park was renamed Ivvavik in 1992 for the Inuvialuktun word meaning "nursery" or "birthplace," [3] in reference to the importance of the area as a calving ground for Porcupine caribou.
The Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge is a United States National Wildlife Refuge covering about 19.16 million acres (77,500 km 2) in southwestern Alaska. [2] It is the second-largest National Wildlife Refuge in the country, only slightly smaller than the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge .
A grizzly bear charged at a trail camera in Canada’s Yukon territory, footage captured on August 9 shows.This video uploaded to Facebook shows the bear enjoying a back scratch against a tree ...
Yukon covers 482,443 km 2, of which 474,391 km 2 is land and 8,052 km 2 is water, making it the forty-first largest subnational entity in the world, and, among the fifty largest, the least populous. Yukon is bounded on the south by the 60th parallel of latitude. Its northern coast is on the Beaufort Sea. Its western boundary is 141° west ...
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