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Caribou News in Brief Is Published by the BQCMB Caribou News in Brief is published by the BQCMB. CARIBOUCARIBOUNEWS Keeping people in touch with the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board (BQCMB), and with issues affecting caribou. ininNEWS BriefBrief Volume 14 No. 1 • Summer 2011 2011 population survey Looking for answers about Beverly caribou It’s hoped that the June 2011 surveys of three calving areas – including the traditional calving ground of the Beverly herd – will have shed some light th on the question, what has been happening with Beverly caribou? Since 13 North American Caribou Workshop 2007, annual reconnaissance surveys by the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) have spotted fewer and fewer caribou on the herd’s traditional calving ground between Beverly Lake and Garry Lake, Nunavut (see “Shrinking Beverly herd goes from bad to worse,” Caribou News in David Vetra Brief, Summer 2009). The 2011 Government of Nunavut-led census was to take place between June 3 and 20. According to survey organizer and Kivalliq regional biologist Mitch Campbell (who is an alternate BQCMB member as well), the survey team was also to survey calving grounds in the Queen Maud Gulf area, north of Garry Lake, and in the Northeast Mainland area to the east, as well as another expanse of land farther east. Surveys are the responsibility of governments, not the BQCMB. Two different views on Beverly situation There are now two schools of thought about what’s been going on with Beverly caribou. One is that the Beverly herd has declined dramatically and the few remaining Beverly cows have merged with the larger Ahiak herd to the north. In November 2008, wildlife director Susan Fleck of GNWT’s BQCMB chair Albert Thorassie (left), flanked by Albert Department of Environment and Natural Resources presented evidence to Boucher of Lutsel K’e, conducts opening and closing the BQCMB from the territorial government’s June 2007 and June 2008 prayers for the October 2010 workshop’s Talking Circle systematic reconnaissance surveys that showed the herd’s numbers had session. See “People and caribou,” page 16 dropped sharply, a trend that continued with the results of a June 2009 reconnaissance survey. The BQCMB subsequently relayed these findings to by former GNWT biologist John Nagy and other biologists, is that the others in November 2008 and July 2009 press releases. Beverly herd has shifted its calving area north from its traditional calving The second school of thought, gaining prominence with a new study ground to the western Queen Maud Gulf area. Continued on page 4 Articles in Dene or Inuktitut are available upon request. For more news, see our website: Diri ?erihtå’ís sí dÿne chu ?eténa yati chu tth’i t’á ?erihtå’ís www.arctic-caribou.com hûlî ?at’e dÿneba xálñ huts’åÿ?î déxa. ᑎᑎᕋᕐᒃᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᐊᓪᓚᑎᑐᑦ ᐅᕝᕙᓘᓐᓃᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᐱᔭᒃᓴᐅᕗᑦ ᑐᒃᓯᕋᕐᓗᓂ. Ejâ yazî etthén ghâ nohehél hudi ᑐᒃᑐᓂᒃ ᑐᓴᕈᑎᑦ ᓇᐃᑦᑐᑦ Around the range Land use planning news As of May 2011, the NWT Region office of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development David Vetra Canada (AANDC) was still analyzing comments from planning partners on the Draft Upper Thelon Land and Resource Management Plan, issued in February 2010. While most partners had given their input, AANDC said it wanted to allow all partners the time they needed to examine the draft plan, and would still accept input from those who had not given feedback yet. Land use plans decide what activities can go ahead in certain areas. In March 2010, the BQCMB provided preliminary comments, plus background information on barren-ground caribou range Some lively young square dancers entertained the crowds during a May 2010 use and BQCMB recommendations previously BQCMB public meeting in Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan, held in tandem with the submitted for permitting mineral exploration Board’s regular spring meeting last year and development in the Upper Thelon region. AANDC gave the Board some funding to do the review. More MB-NU road talks made publicly available, although the two As for the draft plan, it needs improvement, After several years in the works, contractor governments are discussing a joint release the BQCMB said. The plan should provide: SNC-Lavalin last year wrapped up a business of the publication. The mega-project’s other 1) an interim land use plan for the Upper case studying whether a proposed all-season partners are the Government of Canada Thelon 2) options for excluding exploration road between Manitoba and Nunavut makes and the Kivalliq Inuit Association. It’s been or development from key portions of the sense economically. The favoured route suggested that 70 percent of the project’s plan area, and 3) assessment of cumulative of three suggested is the eastern Gillam- $1.2-billion cost would have to be shouldered effects of human land use activities across the Churchill-Rankin Inlet route. by the federal government. caribou range. Then, in November 2010, the The BQCMB also commented on the governments of Manitoba and Nunavut BQCMB meetings working draft Nunavut-wide land use plan signed a memorandum of understanding that The BQCMB heads to Winnipeg for its regular issued by the Nunavut Planning Commission pledged, in part, to “continue exploring the fall meeting from November 1 to 4, 2011. (NPC) in June 2010. However, the NPC has potential for an all-weather road between Work on a new caribou management plan and delayed releasing a draft plan (the next Manitoba and Nunavut, including conducting strategic planning for 2012 and beyond will step) until December 2011 to give some of initial stakeholder consultations” on the play a central role at that get-together. its planning partners more time to provide business case. Meanwhile, the BQCMB’s spring 2012 input. The Kivalliq region – home to all of According to a Manitoba Infrastructure meeting is slated for Lutsel K’e, NWT. If the Qamanirjuaq’s and most of the Beverly’s and Transportation government official who logistics and costs prove to be too much to calving grounds – is regulated by the asked not to be named, the timing or make- handle, the alternate location is Prince Albert, Keewatin Regional Land Use Plan, approved up of stakeholder consultations have not Saskatchewan. in June 2000. been set yet, nor has the business case been 2 The return of Caribou News in Brief We’re back! April 2009 by community resident and • updating case studies of the Beverly and This is the first issue ofCaribou News BQCMB member Thomas Elytook, who Qamanirjuaq herds, and creating numerous in Brief since Summer 2009. That’s partly explained apprehensions about changes communications products, including large because the BQCMB has been stickhandling a that may result from increasing mineral BQCMB and caribou-related posters with higher-than-usual number of projects, which exploration and development in the Baker conservation messages, and postcards resulted in limited Board funds and energies Lake area that could affect caribou; and asking caribou-range residents to describe being redirected into other projects. a presentation by BQCMB member Earl caribou disturbances they have seen. Some of these key activities included: Evans of Fort Smith called “The Shrinking This issue of Caribou News in Brief • organizing the February 2010 BQCMB Beverly Caribou Herd,” delivered to the brings readers up to speed on many of these Caribou Workshop in Saskatoon, and CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and topics. To learn more about the ongoing work following up with reports reflecting the Assessment network in December 2009 of the BQCMB, visit www.arctic-caribou.com. presentations, discussions and ideas shared at the Caribou Workshop, as well as re the first of community visits to gather even è . and a fond farewell more feedback from Northerners • taking part in the 13th North American Caribou After 17 years as editor of Caribou News in Brief, Workshop in Winnipeg, October 2010 I am moving on to new challenges, leaving the • providing detailed submissions to regulatory Dominique Soubli BQCMB family with my best wishes. Working boards and others on various issues, with hunters, scientists and other Northerners including development projects, that could has changed my life, for the better. Everything affect the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq herds important about the North, I learned by coming • attending workshops and delivering to understand that hunting is pivotal to provide presentations to raise the profile of the for family – and caribou mean life itself to Northerners. To everyone I’ve worked with and BQCMB and concerns related to the interviewed over the years, thank you from the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq herds, including With one of several beautiful bottom of my heart. Mahsi cho, matna. a presentation to Jonah Amitnaaq parting gifts from the BQCMB - Marion Soublière Secondary School students in Baker Lake, TABLE OF CONTENTS Looking for answers about Beverly caribou . 1 Cameco and the calving ground . 8 Around the range . 2 BQCMB Caribou Workshop: Ideas to action . 9 The return of Caribou News in Brief . 3 What people can do to help the caribou . 11 Higher Qamanirjuaq birth rate, lower census figures . 4 “We need to educate hunters” . 11 Kiggavik Review: Ball in Areva’s court now . 5 In Profile: Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit . 12 AREVA and the BQCMB . 5 Taming wildfires near Lutsel K’e . 14 What is the Kiggavik project? . 6 Board passes resolution to continue to 2022 . 15 Uranium exploration abounds on ranges . 7 People and caribou . 16 3 “Survey,” continued from page 1 While this idea is not new – Government the animals. In recent years, the only caribou included the GNWT (which took part in of Nunavut officials and some hunters have accessible to Saskatchewan hunters appear to the survey and helped to plan it); Nunavut voiced this belief in the past – the concept has have been from the Qamanirjuaq herd.
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