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Yukon Land-use Planning Atlas

This project will create a land-use planning atlas that will enable the Yukon Regional Land Use Planning commissions and their stakeholders to integrate, analyze, and capitalize on land-use planning data.

Under the Umbrella Final Agreement for the Yukon, regional land-use planning commissions develop land-use plans for the Government of Canada, the Government of Yukon, and the affected First Nation(s). Consequently, the commissions collect a large amount of primary and secondary data.  The challenge is to make this information easily accessible to the large number of governments and stakeholders that require it. Although the commissions create and distribute both hardcopy and digital maps and reports, these products are static and do not allow audiences to analyse and manipulate them further. The Yukon Land-use Planning Atlas will address this shortcoming and provide a tool for efficiently updating land-use plans.

The atlas will

• help present land-use planning data consistently;
• employ the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure to leverage existing data and reduce the effort required to obtain the most current data; and
• provide project assessors, decision-makers, industry, and the public with information on Yukon resources and cultural assets.

Communities will also benefit by increasing their awareness of both the local environment and traditional knowledge.

Primary Partner: Yukon Land Use Planning Council  Whitehorse,  Yukon Territory;

Partners: North Yukon Land Use Planning Commission; Peel Watershed Planning Commission; Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation

Funding From GeoConnections: $112,200.00 ( 50.0 %)

Estimated Inception Date: April 1, 2006

Estimated Completion Date: May 30, 2007

Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: Yukon Territory;