Resources

Description: 

The Forest Management Division (FMD) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) is responsible for monitoring forest health conditions across the NWT to ensure the forest has the capacity for renewal after a wide range of disturbances, and is able to retain its ecological resiliency while meeting the current and future needs of NWT residents.

Publication date: 
June 2019
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources, Monitoring
Resource Type: 
Reports
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Chaque année, le ministère de l’Environnement et des Ressources naturelles (MERN) effectue en priorité des relevés aériens des forêts d’épinettes matures, surtout parce qu’il s’agit d’un hôte privilégié par le ravageur qui cause le plus de dommages aux TNO, à savoir la tordeuse des bourgeons de l’épinette (Choristoneura fumiferana).

Publication date: 
June 2019
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources, Monitoring
Resource Type: 
Documents
Type of resource: 
File

Forest Health News 2018 (pdf/3.98 MB)
Description: 

Newsletter for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) explaining how they conducts annual aerial surveys in areas occupied by mature spruce forests as a priority, mostly because of their significance as a preferred host for the most serious insect pest in the NWT.

Publication date: 
June 2019
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources, Monitoring
Resource Type: 
Documents
Type of resource: 
File

Forest Health News 2018 (pdf/3.98 MB)
Description: 

Environment and Natural Resources Strategic Plan 2015-2020

Publication date: 
January 2015
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources, Monitoring, Water, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Plans
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Ecological Regions of the Northwest Territories - Northern Arctic Ecosystem Classification Group. 2013.

Publication date: 
January 2013
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources, Research and data, Water, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Reports
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Ecological Regions of the Northwest Territories - Southern Arctic Ecological Land Classification Report. 2012.

Publication date: 
January 2012
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources, Research and data, Water, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Reports
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

A Biodiversity Special Edition of NWT State of the Environment Report released in 2010.

Publication date: 
July 2010
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Reports
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Ecological Regions of the Northwest Territories - Cordillera
Ecosystem Classification Group. 2010.

Publication date: 
January 2010
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources, Research and data, Water, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Reports
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Ecological Regions of the Northwest Territories - Taiga Plains Ecological Land Classification Report. 2009.

Publication date: 
January 2009
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources, Research and data, Water, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Reports
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Ecological Regions of the Northwest Territories - Taiga Shield Ecological Land Classification Report. 2008.

Publication date: 
January 2008
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources, Research and data, Water, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Reports
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Second Northwest Territories Biodiversity Action Plan Report focuses on gap and overlap analysis and includes recommendations for future action. Published in 2006 by the NWT Biodiversity Team.

Publication date: 
January 2006
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources
Resource Type: 
Reports
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

A list of accords and agreements relating to biodiversity. Published in 2006.

Publication date: 
January 2006
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources
Resource Type: 
Documents
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

The Northwest Territories Biodiversity Action Plan published by the NWT Biodiversity Action Team in 2004. First Biodiversity Action Plan report for the NWT.

Publication date: 
January 2004
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources
Resource Type: 
Reports
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

A list of NWT tools available to help with adaptive ecological management.

Publication date: 
January 2002
Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources, Wildlife and nature
Resource Type: 
Documents
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Final report on the NWT forest ecosystem classification pilot project done in 2004.

Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources
Resource Type: 
Reports
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Poster showing EOSD land cover classes in the NWT.

Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources
Resource Type: 
Maps
Type of resource: 
File
Description: 

Appendix to the NWT Biodiversity Action Plan listing wildlife-related monitoring programs in the Northwest Territories.

Resource Category: 
Conservation planning, Forest resources
Resource Type: 
Documents
Type of resource: 
File