PAS Candidate Area Working Groups
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Candidate Area Working Groups are usually set up once an area has been sponsored for protection. Working groups help evaluate the candidate area and make recommendations about the future status and management of the area. For more details on the working group process, click here.
Click on the links below for information on site-specific working groups.
- Buffalo Lake, River, and Trails Working Group
- Łue Túé Sųlái Working Group
- Ka'a'gee Tu Working Group
- Kwets'ootł'àà Working Group
- Sambaa K'e Working Group
- Ts'ude niline Tu'eyeta Working Group
- Former PAS Working Groups
- Other protected area proposals
Buffalo Lake, River, and Trails Working Group
- Sponsoring Agency: Government of the Northwest Territories, Environment and Natural Resources
- Working Group Chair: K’atł’odeeche First Nation - Chief Roy Fabian (co-chair) and Government of the Northwest Territories, Environment and Natural Resources- Nicole McCutchen (co-chair)
- Established: May 2010
- Working Group Terms of Reference (pdf)
Member Organizations:
- K’atł’odeeche First Nation
- Government of the Northwest Territories, Environment and Natural Resources
- Dehcho First Nations
- Hay River Métis Council
- Northwest Territories Métis Nation
- Department of Fisheries and Oceans
- Parks Canada Agency
- Tamerlane Ventures
- Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
- Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
- Canadian Wildlife Service
- Deninu Kue First Nation
- Hay River Hunters and Trappers Association
Łue Túé Sųlái Working Group
- Sponsoring Agency: Government of the Northwest Territories, Industry, Tourism and Investment
- Working Group Chair: Jean Marie River First Nation - Acting Chief Stanley Sanguez and Margaret Ireland (co-chairs)
- Established: February 2011
- Working Group Terms of Reference (pdf)
Member Organizations:
- Jean Marie River First Nation
- Government of the Northwest Territories, Industry, Tourism and Investment
- Dehcho First Nation
- Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
- NWT and Nunavut Chamber of Mines
- Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Ka'a'gee Tu Working Group
- Sponsoring Agency: Canadian Wildlife Service
- Working Group Chair: Ka'a'gee Tu First Nation, Chief Lloyd Chicot
- Established: March 2010
- Working Group Terms of Reference (pdf)
Member Organizations:
- Ka'a'gee Tu First Nation
- K’atł’odeeche First Nation
- Deh Gah Got'ie Dene Council
- Dehcho First Nations
- Northwest Territories Métis Nation
- Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service
- Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
- Government of the Northwest Territories
- Ducks Unlimited Canada
- Brabant Lodge
- Deghanni Lake Lodge
- Northern Transportation Company Ltd. (NTCL)
Kwets'ootł'àà Working Group
- Sponsoring Agency: Canadian Wildlife Service
- Working Group Chair:
- Established: Dec 2010
- Working Group Terms of Reference (pdf)
Member Organizations:
To be updated shortlySambaa K’e Working Group
- Sponsoring Agency: Canadian Wildlife Service
- Working Group Chair: Dennis Deneron, Sambaa K’e First Nation
- Established: January 2007
- Working Group Terms of Reference (pdf)
Member Organizations:
- Sambaa K'e First Nation
- Dehcho First Nations
- Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service
- Government of the Northwest Territories
- Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
- Ducks Unlimited Canada
Ts’ude niline Tu’eyeta Working Group
- Sponsoring Agency: Canadian Wildlife Service
- Working Group Chair: Isidore Manuel, Yamoga Land Corporation
- Established: June 2007
- Working Group Terms of Reference (pdf)
Member Organizations:
- Yamoga Land Corporation
- Fort Good Hope Métis Land Corporation
- Fort Good Hope Renewable Resource Council
- K’asho Got’ine Dene Band
- Elder representative
- Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service
- Government of the Northwest Territories
- Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
- Association of Mackenzie Mountain Outfitters
- Ducks Unlimited Canada
Former PAS Working Groups
- Saoyú-ʔehdacho Working Group (final report)
- Edéhzhíe Working Group (final report)
- Shúhtagot'ine Néné (Sahtu Land Use Plan)
Other protected area proposals
Parks Canada is working with communities on two new
national park proposals (Nááts’ihch’oh and Thaidene Nene). These processes are
guided by groups similar to PAS candidate area working groups. The Nááts’ihch’oh
establishment process is guided by the Sahtu Dene and Métis Comprehensive Claim
Agreement. Thaidene Nene is being negotiated in the context of ongoing
discussions with the Akaitcho/Treaty 8 and the Northwest Territory Métis Nation.
