Community Based Fish and Wildlife Work Plan

The Community Based Fish and Wildlife Work Plan (CBFWWP) is a collaboration between Carcross Tagish First Nation (CTFN), Yukon Government, and Carcross Tagish Renewable Resources Council (CTRRC). The plan represents a shared vision for fish, wildlife, and habitat management over a five year period within the CTFN Traditional Territory, commonly known as the Southern Lakes, Yukon. The three parties collectively agree to defined objectives, some to be completed together and some separately. For example, some objectives set out and accomplished in the previous 2020-2025 CBFWWP include; the completion of the Caribou in the Schools education curriculum, establishing ground-based sheep surveys on Caribou Mountain, creating a Fishing Ethics and Education (FEED) course, and a wolf/predator relationship study. For reference, the 2020-2025 Community-Based Fish and Wildlife Work Plan can be found here.

The objectives are defined by the three parties to the Work Plan, but the most valuable source of information is you, the community. CTRRC gathers feedback from surveys, emails and letters addressed to CTRRC, comments at annual gatherings and workshops, and through a local knowledge survey where community members who spend hundreds of days per year on the land provide feedback on the landscape. Your opinion matters. Between October 2024 and February 2025, CTRRC held community workshops and hosted an online public survey to gather community input to the draft 2025-2030 Community Based Fish and Wildlife Work Plan.

The draft objectives for the 2025-2030 Work Plan will be presented at a FREE COMMUNITY DINNER on Thursday, June 5th at Haa Shagoon Hidi, Carcross between 3:00pm and 7:00pm. We invite all residents of the Southern Lakes to join us for a free dinner and some excellent raffle prizes, to review the objectives, and provide your feedback and input to the final 2025-2030 Work Plan.