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Publisher-reported update

2026-08-26

The proposed Pickhandle Lakes Special Management Area (SMA) consists of 50.2 square kilometers in southwestern Yukon on NTS map sheet 115F/16. The Yukon and Canadian governments and Kluane and White River First Nations agreed to create a SMA, to be designated as a Habitat Protection Area, which covers Pickhandle Lake and the surrounding wetlands. The Habit Protection Area designation does not require the withdrawal of the area from mineral staking and withdrawal has not been requested in the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Governments of Canada, Yukon and the First Nations. The purpose of this report is to present the results of the detailed mineral assessment of an approximately 281.7 km2 area that encompassed the proposed Special Management Area. This enlarged area was included to provide some relative context for the assessment. The proposed SMA area has no known mineral occurrences and fieldwork conducted during 2002 did not identify any mineral resources. As the proposed SMA is a wetland in the overburden covered Shakwak Trench no rock exposures were found within the SMA in 2002 and conventional soil and stream sediment sampling were determined to be…

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