IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area)
Shoreline of a large lake in Old Crow Flats
Area
6,170 km2 (2,380 sq mi)
Ramsar Wetland
Designated
24 May 1982
Reference no.
244[2]
Old Crow Flats (Van Tat[1] in the Gwichʼin language) is a 6,170 km2 (2,382 sq mi) wetland complex in northern Yukon, Canada along the Old Crow River. It is north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Beaufort Sea, and is nearly surrounded by mountains.[3]
^ abVuntut Gwich’in Waters
^"Old Crow Flats". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
^"Life on the Flats". Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
of archaeological sites in the Americas such as Bluefish Caves and OldCrowFlats in the Yukon Territory, and Meadowcroft Rock Shelter in Pennsylvania...
caribou bone used as a scraper, found at the OldCrowFlats site in Canada and thought to be 27,000 years old, in the 1970s was used to support the long...
1982, though in some circles that word is also falling into disfavour. OldCrowFlats and Bluefish Caves are some of the earliest known sites of human habitation...
at least 14,000 years ago. The Paleo-Indian archeological sites at OldCrowFlats and Bluefish Caves are two of the oldest sites of human habitation in...
National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. The park also includes part of the OldCrowFlats. Tr'ochëk is a historical Hän fishing site. Chief Isaac, (pictured top...
1982, though in some circles that word is also falling into disfavour. OldCrowFlats and Bluefish Caves are some of the earliest known sites of human habitation...
origin) probably implies "a little wolf". The name in Proto-Norse, erafaz and Old Norse, jarfr, lives on in the regular Icelandic name jarfi, regular Norwegian...
predators; findings of cut marks may point to a human presence. The OldCrowFlats, another important area with early human presence, are located about...
sites, but at least 20,000 years ago "Pleistocene Archaeology of the OldCrowFlats". Vuntut National Park of Canada. 2008. Archived from the original on...
Tsâwnjuk Chu (Nordenskiold) Habitat Protection Area Van Tat K'atr'anahtii (OldCrowFlats) Special Management Area List of Canadian provincial parks List of National...
cats. Important sites of pre-LGM human occupation in Beringia include OldCrowFlats & the Klondike, Kuparuk River Valley, & the Bluefish Caves. The human...
and east out of Beringia, and into Canada. The Haida Gwaii islands, OldCrowFlats, and the Bluefish Caves contain some of the earliest Paleo-Indian archeological...
Rafting on the Alsek River (a Canadian Heritage river), mountain biking on old mining roads, horseback riding through the Alsek Pass, boating on Kathleen...
first group of World Heritage Sites granted by UNESCO. It also contains OldCrowFlats, an internationally important wetland that overlaps Vuntut National...
sites, but at least 20,000 years ago "Pleistocene Archaeology of the OldCrowFlats". Vuntut National Park of Canada. 2008. Archived from the original on...
in Alaska, in the woodlands of the McKenzie River valley and on the OldCrowFlats. These birds migrate south (mostly via the Central and Mississippi Flyways)...
sites, but at least 20,000 years ago "Pleistocene Archaeology of the OldCrowFlats". Vuntut National Park of Canada. 2008. Archived from the original on...
Branch) Qikiqtaruk Tombstone Marine Protected Areas Tarium Niryutait National Wildlife Areas Nisutlin River Delta Other OldCrowFlats Category Commons...
Branch) Qikiqtaruk Tombstone Marine Protected Areas Tarium Niryutait National Wildlife Areas Nisutlin River Delta Other OldCrowFlats Category Commons...
residents, focused his research on Crow basin and the Bluefish caves in the surrounding mountains (1966–1983). OldCrowFlats and Bluefish Caves are some of...
Branch) Qikiqtaruk Tombstone Marine Protected Areas Tarium Niryutait National Wildlife Areas Nisutlin River Delta Other OldCrowFlats Category Commons...
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