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| | Impact and Benefit Plan Signed to Expand Tuktut Nogait National Park of Canada |
 | | The park's primarily arctic tundra and barren lands are currently home to rich populations of caribou, musk oxen, grizzly bears, wolves, red foxes, wolverines, arctic ground squirrels, and collared lemmings, as well as to migratory birds, including peregrine falcons and golden eagles, and to fish such as arctic char, grayling and lake trout. |
 | | Negotiations toward the expansion of the park into the Sahtu Settlement Area were initiated in 2000 at the request of the Sahtu Lands Corporation. |
 | | With the agreement and the addition of Sahtu Settlement Area lands to the park, it will now protect the tablelands of the Hornaday River Plateau and areas of spruce forest, as well as offer further protection to the headwaters of the river and to the calving grounds of the Bluenose caribou herd. |
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