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The Carmacks Group is a Late Cretaceous volcanic group in southwest-central Yukon, Canada, located between the communities of Dawson City and Whitehorse.It consists of flood basalts, coarse volcaniclastic rocks and sandy tuffs interbedded with subordinate andesite and basaltic lava flows. [1]
The Yellowstone-to-Yukon region is one of the most ambitious corridor projects on the North American continent. [4] Since 1993 Yellowstone to Yukon's conservationists have supported wildlife crossings over and under highways, helped track wolverines and purchased more than 500,000 acres of land to preserve wildlife routes.
The Northwest Territories taiga ecoregion (WWF:NA0614) is located in the Northwest Territories and Yukon provinces of Canada. It covers forest and tundra along the Mackenzie River Valley and the surrounding highlands in the southern portion of the valley. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Takhini Hot Springs (Takhini Hotspring) (tɑːkiːniː) is a natural hot springs located just outside the border of Whitehorse, Yukon (28 km (17 mi) from the city centre). It is a locally run business which incorporates two pools at different temperatures and has a campground with over 80 sites.
Tufa found in Nahanni National Park. The Nahanni National Park Reserve, sometimes known as "Headless Valley" or "Valley of The Headless Men" (after a series of unsolved historical deaths in the park), in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada (approximately 500 km (311 mi) west of Yellowknife), [4] protects a portion of the Mackenzie Mountains Natural Region.
Ibex Mountain is a young cinder cone in the Yukon Territory, Canada, located 33 km southwest of Whitehorse and 12 km southeast of Mount Arkell.It is in a group of basaltic cones and lava flows called Alligator Lake volcanic complex and is in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province.
The Yukon Interior dry forests is a taiga ecoregion of Canada. Setting. This ecoregion, ... Uplands are better preserved than valley bottoms, wherein most of the ...
Stewart River is a former settlement at the juncture of the Yukon and Stewart rivers. A few buildings and cabins remain, as well as private museum, which are threatened by erosion . It was founded as a trading post in the 1880s before the Klondike Gold Rush to serve placer miners working along the Stewart River.