NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Elliot, Nancy
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993
Summary: The researcher will examine the potential impact that `international' status may have on the proposed North Baffin Island National Park. The area has been identified as one of the most productive arctic ecosystems in the circumpolar north. With the new emergence of a new national park and Nunavut, opportunity exists to examine the potential impact of a `World Heritage Site' designation on the pa...

Principal Investigator: Sampson, Patrick
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: In this study, Native concerns will be documented by collecting available literature and interviewing Auyuittuk National Park staff and residents of Pangnirtung. Questions to be asked will focus on the residents' feelings towards the Park, including how and why they like or dislike the Park as they relate to: economic benefits; tourists; protection of local resources as part of the Park; and resi...

Principal Investigator: Notzke, Claudia
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will collect information for a book on aboriginal natural resource management in Canada. The focus of the work will be concentrated with wildlife co-management, native participation in the design, use and management of new national park reserves and the question of how the settlement of claims ties in with current land use planning practices....

Principal Investigator: Rodon, Thierry
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The aim of this research project is to study the policy developed by the Canadian Parks Service to facilitate the creation of national parks in northern Canada. The policy proposes to negotiate the extent and the nature of native participation in the planning and management of national parks....

Principal Investigator: Morgan, James P.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: This project was identified by the CPS as essential to effective co-management of wildlife in northern national parks. A broader look at how each park implements co-management and how other agencies have been successful in co-managing wildlife is required to form a formulate a consistent approach across the northern national parks system....

Principal Investigator: Vannijnatten, Debora
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will investigate the degree to which the Inuit communities of Arctic Bay and Pond Inlet were involved in the desicion making process to set the boundaries for North Baffin Park. She will also examine how concerns are expressed in Inuit community involvement in these processes....

Principal Investigator: Jones, Timothy
Licensed Year(s): 1991 1990
Summary: The Research team will continue work begun in 1990 to carry out a resource evaluation of the Bluenose Lake area. A national park has been proposed for the area. Before land can be set aside as a park reserve an assessment of non-renewable (oil, gas, minerals) resource potential is required....

Principal Investigator: Heath, Jackie
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will develop a plan for a trail system for Inuvik and will propose a plan for the development, maintenance and possible uses for their impacts. She will also assist the Auyuittuq National Park Warden to develop a Park Conservation Management Plan....

Principal Investigator: MacNeil, Ian
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher and his team will join other researchers already at the site to become familiar with the fossil forest site and the surrounding region. No sampling or removal of fossils will be undertaken by this field team....

Principal Investigator: Harvey, Douglas
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher and a member of the local Park Committee will review boundary options and operational requirements for ongoing efforts to establish a national park in the area of north Baffin Island....