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Chase Caribou Road Restoration Program - Year 2 (2024-2025) Summary Report
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2025
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In 2024, the CCRRP restored a total of 2.5 kilometers of road sections within the Swannell River Valley, which was less than the targeted 9.3 km, due to the excavator break down that occurred. The road restoration activities have been completed in an area that has been identified as low-elevation core habitat for the Chase Caribou and that Tsay Keh Dene Nation has designated as the Wdzih Yinè' (Caribou Song) Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA), protecting this area from further industrial developments. We employed both functional and ecological restoration techniques make the road surface more suitable for vegetation establishment, as well as to create physical barriers to predator line-of-sight and movement along the former road surface. As well, we planted the road with lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) seedlings to accelerate the recovery of the road to a forested ecosystem.
Additionally, we completed pre-treatment monitoring of the wildlife and vegetation using the road to understand how wildlife use of the road changes and to monitor vegetation growth and establishment through time following restoration treatments. Follow up monitoring will be completed in future years to track the development of vegetation and to compare pre- and post-treatment wildlife use of the road segments.
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wsi_6360_rpt_2024-2025.pdf
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