Data Owned by Other Agencies
The following coverages were compiled by the Department of the Environment from paper sources owned by other agencies. The Department of the Environment is not responsible for the accuracy of data obtained from other agencies. The data are in the ESRI Shapefile format. which are in turn compressed into a Zip archive. Specialized GIS software is needed to view shapefiles, e.g. ArcView and ArcInfo.
Administrative Boundaries
Parks & Protected (Conservation) Areas
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Areas which have been set aside for conservation management purposes. These areas include (but are not limited to) National Parks, Territorial Parks, and Special Management Areas established under the Yukon First Nation Final Agreement.
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First Nations Traditional Territories
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A Traditional Territory is an area of the Yukon that the people of a First Nation have traditionally used. A First Nation's Settlement Land fall inside the boundaries of its Traditional Territory. A First Nation does not own its Traditional Territory, but the First Nation and its benificiaries have a number of rights within their Traditional Territory, both on and off of Settlement Land.
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