Chase Caribou Road Restoration | Chuyaza and the Swanell

The team continued the Chase Caribou Road Restoration Program on the Swannell Mainline in 2024.
They work in the Swannell River Valley to collect drone NDVI data before bringing in the heavy equipment and seedlings to restore an 8.5 km section of road within Chase Caribou low elevation core habitat. These restoration efforts are making the road less suitable for predators, will create a refuge for the caribou and ultimately return the road to a mature forest environment.
This project would not have been possible without the generous support from:
Tsay Keh Dene Nation
Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program
Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Conifex Timber Inc.

[@richardtennant2237]

Very interesting video. Will the work you are doing help to put the Wolves & Caribou back in a more natural life cycle balance?

[@ChuChoEnvironmental]

Thanks Richard! That's part of the hope. An abandoned road can become a path of least resistance for predators but there are other benefits as well. In our view money spent on this type of restoration is high value because it benefits the ecosystem as whole. The ecosystem services provide benefit not just the caribou but also humans, restoring some sort of local balance as you say.