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Giving Away Our Sovereignty; One Park at a Time

CBC News
June 14, 2006

Canada Parks Canada officials are pushing to have Dawson City proclaimed a United Nations world heritage site, along with locations in Yukon and elsewhere that were part of the 1898 Klondike gold rush.

Work on a proposal, which would likely take many years to complete, could start as early as 2008, said Rob Watt, who is superintendent of historic sites in Dawson City for Parks Canada.

"We're talking about sites possibly as far south as Seattle be involved, also Skagway, the Chilkoot trail, possibly some locations in Whitehorse and probably, potentially the 30 Mile as part of the Yukon River," Watt said.

One of the initial steps will be to negotiate with all of the stakeholders, he said.

"In this case it would be the U.S. national park service, also the B.C. government, the Yukon government, and any First Nations that are involved with their traditional territories, and Parks Canada."

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) decides which locations to list as world heritage sites.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

The designation is meant to encourage countries to identify and protect regions that are considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.

There is already one UN world heritage site in the Yukon, Kluane National Park, which is part a 97,000-square-kilometre area of wilderness in the territory, British Columbia and Alaska that was the first bi-national entry on the World Heritage List.

Parks Canada says 13 sites in total have the designation countrywide, including the Nahanni National Park Reserve in Northwest Territories.

The most famous of them are likely Banff and Jasper National parks in Alberta.

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