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Yukon State of the Environment Report 1999
The second comprehensive Yukon State of the Environment report set a new benchmark for our understanding of the environmental health of the territory. It measured the progress that we made and addressed environmental challenges. This 144-page report updated or provided new indicators on air and climate change, water, land, the living world and ecosystems
This report is available for downloading in the following sections:
Introduction and Table of Contents (PDF 1.6 MB)
Chapter 1 (PDF 0.8 MB)
Chapter 2 (PDF 0.6 MB)
Chapter 3 (PDF 3.2 MB)
Chapter 4 (PDF 1.5 MB)
Chapter 5 (PDF 2.1 MB)
Glossary, Reference and Index (PDF 0.1 MB)
Table of contents
1. Air and Climate Change
- Air Quality
- Climate change and the Greenhouse Effect
- Is the Yukon climate changing?
- Potential impacts of Climate Change on the Economy
- Responses to Climate Change
2. Water
- Water Allocation and Use
- Measuring stream flow
- Groundwater
- Allocating Water
- Domestic Water Use
- Recreational Water Use
- Water Quality
- Water Quality Monitoring
- Drinking water
- What affects Water Quality
- The Cumulative Effects of Pollution
- Regulation
3. Land
- Wilderness
- Protected Areas
- Oil and Gas Industry
- Mining
- Solid Waste
- Agriculture
- Transportation
- Tourism
4. The Living World
- Fish and Fish Habitat
- Salmon
- Freshwater Fish
- Fish Habitat
- Yukon Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
- Wildlife Habitat
- Wildlife Population Trends
- Birds
- Amphibians
- Wildlife Values
- Co-operative Wildlife and Habitat Management
- Non-game and Specially Protected Wildlife
5. Focus on Ecosystems
- Wetlands
- Natural cycles and Climate change
- Inventory
- Loss of Wetland Habitat
- Protection of wetlands
- Forests
- The ecology and distribution of Yukon Forests
- Forest Management
- Fire Management
- Human use of Yukon forests
- Key forest statistics
- Yukon Forests and Climate change
- Traditional Way of Life
For more information contact:
Yukon State of the Environment Reporting
Policy & Planning Branch V-2
Phone: (867) 667-5634
Toll free (in Yukon): (1-800) 661-0408, local 5634
Fax: (867) 393-6213
environmentyukon@gov.yk.ca