Government of Yukon

The Local Area Plans and Community Plans are approved by Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources and Cabinet as a Policy Document. Newer joint Local Area Plans are approved in the same manner for non Settlement Land and by First Nation Chief and Council for Settlement Land. Distributed from...

Location of flight lines of Yukon aerial photographs. Data was produced from heads up digitization of paper flight line index maps . Distributed from GeoYukon by the Government of Yukon . Discover more digital map data and interactive maps from Yukon's digital map data collection. For more...

Major hard rock mining project in Yukon requires a detailed environmental and socio-economic assessment and various regulatory approvals. These approvals include, but are not limited to a Water Licence and a Quartz Mining Licence. A project must go through two distinct stages before mining...

Location of centre points of Yukon aerial photographs. Data was produced from heads up digitization of paper flightline index maps Distributed from GeoYukon by the Government of Yukon . Discover more digital map data and interactive maps from Yukon's digital map data collection. For more...

This application outlines suitable areas for finding and harvesting Christmas trees in and around the City of Whitehorse.

This feature delineates forest and vegetation stands in the Yukon at a scale of 1: 40 ,000. It is a management level forest inventory (as opposed to a n operational level) - meaning that analysis and mapping are most effective close to the 1:40,000 scale and not larger . This inventory has been...

The Yukon Territory is underlain by a great variety of rock types ranging in age from Early Proterozoic to Recent and representing diverse environments including epicratonic basins, subsiding shelves, foreland basins, island arcs and deep ocean basins. Episodes of compressional and extensional...

Created for distribution by the GeoYukon application as a comprehensive resource for all publicly available Geological information in the Yukon Government. This data may be used directly by other applications to dynamically display Yukon data; however, it may be subject to change as data sets are...

Forest resource roads (FRR) are actively used for accessing forest resources. FRRs are tracked and managed in a road management database. These roads do not represent a complete road network, they should be viewed in conjunction with the Roads -50k - Canvec dataset. Many FRRs are gated with...

The framework of the Cordilleran orogen of northwestern North America is commonly depicted as a 'collage' of terranes - crustal blocks containing records of a variety of geodynamic environments including continental fragments, pieces of island arc crust and oceanic crust. The series of maps...

Location of flight lines of Yukon aerial photographs. Data was produced from heads up digitization of paper flight line index maps . Distributed from GeoYukon by the Government of Yukon . Discover more digital map data and interactive maps from Yukon's digital map data collection. For more...

The Yukon government amended the Quartz Mining Act and the Placer Mining Actin December 2013, to establish the authority to designate areas where government notification of Class 1 exploration activities is required. Before these amendments to the mining acts and regulation came into effect,...

The Radon information application presents a summary of the radon testing that has been performed by homeowners in various Yukon communities from 2006 to 2015. Click on the points to reveal the summary for each community.

Yukon Energy Corporation (YEC) Power Lines distribute electrical power from Power Generating Stations to Power Substations. This data was provided by YEC and will be updated when new power lines are constructed. Distributed from GeoYukon by the Government of Yukon . Discover more digital map data...

Surveyed Land Parcel are real property object that represents the spatial extent of a lot or parcel of land against which rights and interests may be registered. Land Parcel with a parcel status of "Active" form the current cadastral fabric. Distributed from GeoYukon by the Government of Yukon ....

This feature delineates forest and vegetation stands in the Yukon at a scale of 1:5,000. It is an operational level forest inventory (as opposed to a management level). This inventory has been completed in various stages, between 2013 and 2014, and delineation via softcopy from stereo images...

This dataset is populated and maintained b y the Minerals Branch of Yukon Geological Survey. The collect and compile yearly highlights of mining and exploration activity in Yukon. For questions related to the dataset, please contact geology@yukon.ca . *A project size is defined as large / small...

Geotechnical data comes from investigations performed by geotechnical engineers to obtain information on the physical properties of soil and rock underlying a site for proposed structures. The investigations include surface exploration and subsurface exploration of a site. In addition, site...

A wide range of different territorial, federal, and first nation governments have a role in monitoring water. The water monitoring sites data set compiles these varied sources into a single source with the intent to provide a 'one-stop shop' when searching for water monitoring data. Information...

Wildlife Key Areas (WKA) are locations used by wildlife for critical, seasonal life functions. WKAs are identified by interpreting observed locations of wildlife at key times of year, not through intensive habitat assessment. Polygons derived from interviews with locals and from GIS...