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Ducks Unlimited, First Nations and Metis partner to study N.W.T. boreal forest

Submitted by ksnook on July 27, 2017 - 11:58am
Two men in a helicopter in conversation

Now employed at Ducks Unlimited, former MSc grads, Michael Merchant, and Becca Warren are part of the biggest project this organization has ever done. Ducks Unlimited Canada is in the middle of an ambitious survey of more than 31 million hectares of the Northweat Territories' wilderness.  The project will take about two years from start to finish, and result in a highly detailed digital map that will incluce information about existing habitats, and what plants make up those habitats.

More on the collaboration between Ducks Unlimited, First Nations and Metis to study the N.W.T. boreal forest [1]

Keywords: 
guelph geography [2]
First Nations [3]
Metis [4]
Boreal forest [5]
mapping [6]

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[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/ducks-unlimited-survey-nwt-1.4221728 [2] https://csahs.uoguelph.ca/tags/guelph-geography [3] https://csahs.uoguelph.ca/tags/first-nations [4] https://csahs.uoguelph.ca/tags/metis [5] https://csahs.uoguelph.ca/tags/boreal-forest [6] https://csahs.uoguelph.ca/tags/mapping