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.
Sambaa 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
- Environment and Natural Resources, GNWT
- Indian and Northern Affairs 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
- Environment and Natural Resources, GNWT
- Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
- Association of Mackenzie Mountain Outfitters
- Ducks Unlimited Canada
Shúhtagot’ine Néné Working Group
- Sponsoring Agency: Canadian Wildlife Service
- Working Group Chair: Roger Odgaard, Norman Wells Land Corporation
- Established: January 2010
- Working Group Terms of Reference (pdf)
Member Organizations:
- Tulita District Land Corporation
- Fort Norman Métis Land Corporation
- Norman Wells Land Corporation
- Tulita Land Corporation
- Tulita Dene Band
- Tulita Renewable Resource Council
- Norman Wells Renewable Resource Council
- Elder representative
- Youth representative
- Nacho Nyak Dun First Nation
- Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS);
- Indian and Northern Affairs Canada;
- Environment and Natural Resources, GNWT;
- NWT and Nunavut Chamber of Mines;
- Association of Mackenzie Mountain Outfitters (AMMO)
- NWT Chapter Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS)
Former PAS Working Groups
- Saoyú-?ehdacho Working Group (final report)
- Edéhzhíe Working Group (final report)
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.