Northern Yukon/
Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-op

(lead agency in brackets: EC=Environment Canada, VGRRC=Vuntut Gwitchin Renewable Resource Council, VGFN=Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, ANWR=Alaska National Wildlife Refuge)

Co-op Business

• Promote website use in communities (apply for money for training once we have charity status) (EC)
   
  
• Register the website with more search engines (EC)
   
  
• Improve dissemination of information from the Co-op (EC)
   
  
• Produce booklets of gathering proceedings and community monitoring report similar to those produced last year (EC)
   
  
• Make presentations at large gatherings and annual general meetings for local organizations (EC)
   
  
• Get information into newsletters of various organizations (EC)
   
  
• Advise government organizations about what we are doing (EC and other government representatives)
   
  
• Produce permanent posters with a blank spot for updates (EC)
   
  
• Report results of this meeting back to organizations (each organization representative)

Monitoring Priorities

• Continue with community-based monitoring, moving to the fall for interviews
   
  
• Lake ice melt indicator (EC)
   
  
• Water levels (EC)
   
  
• Berry count (VGRRC)
   
  
• Soil temperatures (VGRRC and EC)
   
  
• Build on pilot project in Old Crow (VGRRC and VGFN and EC)

Charity Status (EC)

• Determine liability issue
   
  
• Provide information to communities on charity status
   
  
• If all goes well, proceed with application for charity status

International (EC and ANWR)

• Investigate use of information gathered in ANWR to develop additional indicators (e.g. temps)
   
  
• Invite Alaskan participants to the next gathering on an informal basis