Old Crow Flats

Old Crow Flats, or Van Tat in Gwich’in, is a vast wetland basin in northern Yukon along the Old Crow River, with more than 2,000 ponds and marshes that form a major northern habitat for waterbirds, aquatic mammals, and peregrine falcons. Its ecological importance brought protection under Yukon and Canadian law, international recognition as a Ramsar wetland in 1982, and management today by the Yukon Government and Vuntut National Park. The landscape is also central to the homeland of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation and is archaeologically significant for fossils and mammoth bones that have fueled debate over very early human presence in North America.

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