Public Registry: Archives

The documents herein make up the list of completed WRRB projects and the subsequent record of proceedings.

Archived Documents

PR (BATH 2019): 035 - “We Watch Everything” A Methodology for Boots on the Ground Caribou Monitoring

Key words: Boots on the Ground; caribou monitoring; Traditional Knowledge; Tłı̨chǫ; Bathurst caribou; “We Watch Everything”; holistic monitoring approach; field-based methodology; "Do as Hunters Do” 

Traditional Knowledge
PR (BATH 2019): 034 - Boots on the Ground Caribou Monitoring Program - Monitoring Results 2016

Key words: Boots on the Ground; caribou monitoring program; Traditional Knowledge; Tłı̨chǫ; Inuit; Bathurst caribou; post-calving range; predators; industrial development; “We Watch Everything”; holistic monitoring approach

Traditional Knowledge
PR (BATH 2019): 033 - Boots on the Ground Caribou Monitoring Program 2017 Results

Key words: Boots on the Ground; caribou monitoring program; Traditional Knowledge; Tłı̨chǫ; Inuit; Bathurst caribou; post-calving range; predators; industrial development; climate change; “We Watch Everything”; holistic monitoring approach; field-based methodology; "Do as Hunters Do” 

Traditional Knowledge
PR (BATH 2019): 032 - “We monitor by living here”: Developing monitoring methods based in Indigenous knowledge

Key words: Gitga’at people; stewardship; Guardians; traditional foods; harvest; abundance and quality of resources; health; monitoring; ecological change; Indigenous knowledge

Traditional Knowledge
PR (BATH 2019): 031 - Łeghágots'enetę (learning together): the importance of indigenous perspectives in the identification of biological variation

Key words: aboriginal; biocultural diversity; biodiversity; caribou; collaborative research; ecology; First Nation; genetic variation; indigenous communities; population genetics; population structure; Rangifer tarandus; resource management; social-ecological systems; traditional knowledge

Traditional Knowledge
PR (BATH 2019): 030 - Renewing our traditional laws through joint ekwǫ (caribou) management

Key words: caribou; traditional laws; harvest; barrenlands; management system; working together; changes on the land; caribou relationships; responsibility 

Traditional Knowledge
PR (BATH 2019): 029 - Monitoring the Relationship between People and Caribou

Key words: Tłı̨chǫ laws; human behaviour; caribou; relationships; caribou populations; migration patterns; Tłı̨chǫ indicators of change

Traditional Knowledge
PR (BATH 2019): 028 - Caribou Migration and the State of their Habitat: Tłı̨chǫ Knowledge and Perspectives on ekwò˛ (Barrenland Caribou)

Key words: Tłı̨chǫ knowledge; ɂekwǫ̀ (barren-ground caribou); state of the caribou habitat; monitoring and management; caribou distribution; migration patterns; relationship between the Tłı̨chǫ and the caribou

Traditional Knowledge
PR (BATH 2019): 027 - Tłı̨chǫ Knowledge of Environmental Changes: Implications for Caribou Hunting

Key words: climate change; forest fires; implications for caribou and caribou hunting; adaptations; forest fire suppression; ontological understanding

Traditional Knowledge
PR (BATH 2019): 026 - JUNE 2019 CALVING GROUND COMPOSITION SURVEYS OF BATHURST AND BLUENOSE‐EAST BARREN‐GROUND CARIBOU HERDS WORKING DRAFT

Key words: calving ground composition surveys; Bathurst and Bluenose‐East caribou herds;breeding females estimate; calf productivity; relative distribution of breeding caribou estimate; relative abundance of predators.

Science
PR (BATH 2019): 025 - A conceptual model for migratory tundra caribou to explain and predict why shifts in spatial fidelity of breeding cows to their calving grounds are infrequent

Key words: calving grounds; gregariousness; spatial fidelity; mechanisms; Rangifer tarandus

Traditional Knowledge
PR (BATH 2019): 024 - BATHURST CARIBOU RANGE PLAN DRAFT 2018

Key words: GNWT-ENR; management; cumulative impacts; Bathurst caribou; caribou habitat; Caribou People; human-caused disturbance; natural (fire) disturbance in the Bathurst

Science
PR (BATH 2019): 023 - “These Trees Have Stories to Tell” Linking Denésƍliné Knowledge and Dendroecology in the Monitoring of Barren-ground Caribou Movements in the Northwest Territories, Canada

Key words: Indigenous methodological framework; dendroecology; oral history analysis; caribou movement patterns: Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation; Participatory Action Research (PAR); ethnography; community-based research; participant observation

Traditional Knowledge
PR (BATH 2019): 022 - Calf Production and Adult Sex Ratio in the Bathurst and Bluenose East Herds of Barren-Ground Caribou 2006-2016

Key words: monitoring; calf production; adult sex ratio; barren-ground caribou; Bathurst and Bluenose East herds; composition surveys

Science
PR (BATH 2019): 021 - Caribou Consumption in Northern Canadian Communities

Key words: health; caribou (Rangifer tarandus); caribou consumption levels; diet quality; opportunity costs; out-of-pocket costs; household employment activity

Traditional Knowledge