CPAWS Yukon Press Coverage Archives

Yukon’s Three Rivers Journey project was featured on CBC Radio’s Sounds Like Canada, Tuesday morning, December 13th. Shelagh Rogers spoke at length with Juri Peepre and Sarah Locke, co-authors and editors of the new book, Three Rivers: Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness.

Listen to the interview here. (Real Audio, runs 16:31)

Near the northern extent of the Rocky Mountains, where the Yukon Territory converges on the Peel Plateau and the Arctic Circle sweeps across the map, three great rivers run in rough parallel across a stunning landscape.

Three Rivers: The Yukon’s Great Boreal Wilderness, a small masterpiece released last week by Harbour Publishing, has photographs of the landscape that will take your breath away – and remind you of what it means to be Canadian.

Read the complete review here (subscription required).

CBC Artspots are a series of 30-second works which showcase art and craft made by living Canadian artists. CBC Artspots play on television during commercial breaks in the middle of regular programming. CBC Artspots are accessible and engaging, attracting a broad range of viewers, including those with little art exposure through to those with a great deal of arts knowledge. Read more about the Artspots featuring Three Rivers artists Ron Bolt and Haruko Okano.

With more than 100 protesters and a group of Alaskan politicians in the public gallery, drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was a major issue in the legislature Wednesday. The demonstrators were there to protest the plans to begin exploration and drilling in part of the refuge for oil and gas. There is a concern that development in the calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd could lead to the reduction and eventual disappearance of animals the Gwitchin people in Alaska, the N.W.T. and Yukon have lived off of for generations. Read the full story on the Whitehorse Daily Star Web site.

October 20, 2004
Giant pods speak volumes

October 18, 2004
Three Rivers forum provokes questions of value

October 8, 2004
Exhibit and gala celebrate wonders of the Peel watershed

Graeme McElheran covers the Three Rivers Exhibition events, and interviews the artists and others instrumental in the mounting of this ambitious project.

A documentary about following the Porcupine caribou herd across northern Yukon has won the top award at the Calgary International Film Festival. Read the full story on the CBC North Web site.

See also:
Calgary International Film Festival – Being Caribou Wins AGF People's Choice Award

A national conservation group says species at risk need to be a top priority before development permits are issued.

On Monday, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society launched a nationwide campaign to save the woodland caribou.

The member of the deer family is found in boreal forests from Newfoundland and Labrador through northern Quebec, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. Read the full story on the CBC North Web site.

• Report says caribou herds facing uncertain future
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… There were 12 of us on the trip, including four who had no previous experience in whitewater. Three of them were on the raft that capsized. We were a mixture of Yukoners, Canadians from Toronto, Ottawa and Newfoundland and two Americans. There were three artists and a filmmaker; an administrator of an environmental foundation; a lumberjack turned special education teacher; an outfitter's wife; a community organizer from Old Crow, an aboriginal settlement near the Alaskan border; and Liz, a Yukoner now living in Inuvik, a native community in the Northwest Territories. We had two guides, Jill Pangman and Kate Moylan.

The trip was organized by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society as part of a campaign to win protection for the Snake River and its environs-one of the largest and most vibrant examples of Canada's shrinking wild places. Better known as the Peel River Basin, it is a land of ferruginous mountains and emerald tundra that is coveted for its mineral wealth as well as its natural beauty.

Whitehorse – Reaction has been swift in the Yukon to Premier Dennis Fentie's announcement he was ditching a controversial environmental strategy. And for the most part, early comments have been negative, saying the government won't achieve what it set out to do. Read the full story on the CBC North Web site.