Why this project?

• Hobby-level information gathering and presentation
  
• Good excuse to be an informed hiker
  
• Means of being an educational focus similiar to "Outdoor Ed" and "Mad" programs
  
• means of being a citizen's donation to improving Whitehorse
  
• means of promoting active living
  
• advancing and using photography

Exploring the Whitehorse Copper Belt

• Closest recreation area to Copper-belt neighbourhoods
  
• Hillcrest, Grainger, Lobird, Squatter's Row, Copper Ridge, Logan, McIntyre, Valleyview, Raven's Ridge
  
• Ski Trails, Skido trails, Hiking trails, Copper Haul Road, Trans Canada Trail, Mt. Sima downhill area
  
• Environmentally important Mount McIntyre wetlands
  
• Geologically interesting area with many old mines
  
• Geographically interesting with glacial history and early First Nation history
  
• Current mining claims
  
• Land Claims

Geology/geography

• tectonic
• plutonic
• glacial
• landforms
• canyons
• glacial scours

water

• Fish Lake
• Ice Lake
  
• Valerie Lake
  
• McLean Lake
• Wolf Creek, a salmon stream
• McIntyre Creek,
  • The power of water
  • The Friends of McIntyre Creek Mail to friendsofmcintyre@gmail.com
• McIntyre wetlands (Panels, Kiosk)
• Copper Ridge wetlands
• ponds
• beaver dams
  

History

• first nation
• Fish Lake
• mining
• many early mines
• Whitehorse Copper
• Copper Haul road
• city
• growth of subdivisions
• Yukon Electric power facility
• Transport Canada navigation beacon
• power lines
• any measuring devices

Biology

• plants
  • Yukonviews plant project
• animals
• birds
• insects

Trails and features

• First Nation Traditional Land

Roads

• Fish Lake Road
• mine haul road/Trans Canada
• Haeckel Hill road: The Wind of Change
• Mount McIntyre road
• Coal Lake road

Trails

• Mount McIntyre Ski Club trails
• Hikes and Bikes: Grizzly Goat, Valerire Lake
• Neighbourhood
• wood lot trails
• Yukon Orienteering Association
• Paddy's Pond

features

• Mount Sima Ski Hill
  
• mining
  
• gravel pits
  
• mine train attraction
  
• Transport Canada navigation beacon
  
• Whitehorse Copper revegetation trials
  
• power lines
  
• cut-lines
  
• Wolf Creek research basin, and activities
• Rock climbing area
• Meteor-like rock?

Current Structure

• Land Claims
  
• Kwanlin Dun First Nation
  
• Settlement Land
  
• Traditional Territory
  
• Ta'an Kwatchen
  
• Yukon Government
  
• Electoral subdivisions
  
• municipalities
  
• partly outside city of Whitehorse
  
• City of Whitehorse
  
• Neighbourhoods
  
• Protected areas
  
• City?
  
• YTG?
  
• Mount McIntyre wetlands
• mineral claims
• private property: Icy Waters
• hunting zones
• outfitting leases

Bibliography

maps

• Google Earth
• Whitehorse Geoscape
• The Whitehorse Copper Belt – an annotated geology map, legend
  YGS Open File 2004-15
  compiled by D. Héon, 2 sheets, scale: 1:50,000 (14-149)
• 105D10, 11, 14 showing land claims and mineral claims
• Geology drawing BC G-, , New Imperial Mines Ltd., 1967
• Yukon Orienteering Association: McIntyre Map
• City of Whitehorse Trail Map

books

• Whitehorse and Area Hikes and Bikes
• My 90 Years
• Ecoregions of the Yukon

reports

• Whitehorse Copper Belt: A Simplified Technical History
  EGSD Open File 1993-2 (I)
  by Gordon MacKay, Rick Diment, and Jo-Anne Falkiner, MacKay, Falkiner & Associates
• History of the Whitehorse Copper Belt
  A EGSD Open File 1993-1(I)
  by Helene Dobrowolsky and Rob Ingram, Midnight Arts
• The Whitehorse Copper Belt - A Compilation, 1984
  by P.H. Watson, Scale: 1:25,000 map with marginal notes
• The Whitehorse Copper Belt: Mining, Exploration & Geology, 1967 - 1980
  EGSD Bulletin 1,
  by D. Tenney
• Jeff Bond
  • Late Wisconsinan McConnell glaciation of the Whitehorse map area (105D)
• Reclamation Practices

pamplets

• Haeckel Hill – viewing Whitehorse from above
  
• Lu Zil Män Fish Lake, uncovering the past
  
• Whitehorse Copper Belt
  
• Trans Canada Trail Guide, Southern Lakes Region Multi-use Trails
• Coming one day is The Whitehorse area brochure of the Yukon geological highway map project.
  

Concepts

• build case for necessity of a protected area
  
• matching chadburn lake status.
  
• compare Riverdale vs Hillcrest/Granger/Arkell/Logan/McIntyre/Copper Ridge/KDFN new/Lobird
  
• formalize protected status for a wetlands area
  
• large population
  
• map growth of roads and subdivisions in area, showing KDFN potential for growth
  
• spread out use of limited greenspace behind copper ridge
  
• vision
  
• further vision of city as a green/healthy/outdoorsy city
  
• participaction
  
• protect remaining greenspace by establishing trails
  
• show need of interconnecting major "circle" routes in city core
  
• map best routes across swamps
  
• more accurate circle trails