NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Sonnentag, Oliver
Licensed Year(s): 2024
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5958. The main objective of this project is to understand the perceptions of Indigenous community members, from the ISR and/or the GSA, of how wildfires have modified, and might modify, the landscape and their relationship with it. The Principle Investigator will conduct a dozen semi-structured interviews with community...

Principal Investigator: Anderson, David G
Licensed Year(s): 2000 1999 1998
Summary: The objective of this study is to develop a forest management plan that is sensitive to the priorities identified by the Gwich'in Elders and contemporary Gwich'in forest users. A total of four graduate students and their assistants will work with forestry experts employed by the Gwich'in Renewable Resources Board (GRRB) both to supplement an existing database and to synthesize the material into a...

Principal Investigator: Main Johnson, Leslie
Licensed Year(s): 2000 1999
Summary: The objectives of this project are to document and understand 1) Gwich'in perspectives of the land; 2) Gwich'in view of the land; 3) Gwich'in use of the land; 4) traditional ecological knowledge; 5) resource use/occurrence in different areas; 6) habitats of plants and animals and 7) relationship of people to the land. The researcher will talk with Elders and other people who are knowledgeable abou...

Principal Investigator: Kritsch, Ingrid D.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993
Summary: The researcher will conduct this study under the direction of the Gwich'in Tribal Council. The Council is interested in taking a role in gathering interpretive information for the development of the Campbell Lake Park. The purpose of this project is to provide the Gwich'in perspective of life in the Campbell Lake Park area. Information on place names, trails, camp sites, resources and stories w...