Porcupine Caribou Annual Harvest Meeting Update 2017-2018 February - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Porcupine Caribou Annual Harvest Meeting Update 2017-2018 February 2019 Licensed Harvest Licensed hunters (Resident and Non- Resident): restricted to 2 bulls harvest reporting is mandatory Total licensed harvest 2017/18 2


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Porcupine Caribou Annual Harvest Meeting Update 2017-2018

February 2019

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Licensed Harvest

  • Licensed hunters (Resident and Non-

Resident):

  • restricted to 2 bulls
  • harvest reporting is mandatory
  • Total licensed harvest 2017/18
  • 2 bulls (1 Non-resident, 1 Special-guided)
  • PCH mostly unavailable in fall 2018, one

licensed harvest to date

Government of Yukon 1

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PCH Research and Monitoring

  • Working with several researchers to look at

several aspects of PCH habitat

  • Finalizing Sensitive Habitats publications
  • Continuing full suite of monitoring
  • Provided funding to help initiate PCMB led TK

study

  • Facilitated workshop and contract to summarize

impacts and vulnerability of PCH to 1002 development

Government of Yukon 2

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Hunter Education

  • Check station not needed in 2017/18 or this year
  • Working with Parties to incorporate feedback on

Dempster Highway Hunting Brochures

  • Hart River Caribou Overlap
  • improving communications including new signs for

Dempster (Eagle Plains, km 140, Dempster Corner)

Government of Yukon 3

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Status of Regulation Changes

Joint proposals with the PCMB:

  • 1. Hart River Herd: Oct 31 closure in effect
  • 2. HMP licensed harvest bag limit in effect
  • 3. Ability to open/close a partial subzone

(i.e. GMS 227 at Windy Pass) – awaiting final legislative approval, should be in effect by 2019

Government of Yukon 4

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Upcoming Activities

  • Finalize Dempster Highway Hunting Brochures
  • Review/install Dempster signs (Hart caribou)
  • Posts are installed!
  • Continue working with Aklavik on muskox and

muskox-caribou interactions

  • Continue working on PCH habitat (e.g., lichen, diet,

shrub change and greening)

Government of Yukon 5

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Upcoming Activities

  • Work with PCTC to help identify technical

ways forward with respect to PCH monitoring should leasing of 1002 proceed

  • Continue to work with PCMB, Parties, &

communities on best harvesting practices, harvest reporting, and monitoring using all sources of knowledge

Government of Yukon 6

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Questions?

Government of Yukon 7