Transcending international boundaries

The NWBP landscape also transcends international boundaries. It falls within the boreal forest biome and includes Southcentral and Interior Alaska, most of the Yukon Territory, the northern portion of British Columbia, and a small part of Northwest Territories. The area includes over 330 million acres, and encompasses large portions of the Yukon, Kuskokwim, Susitna, and Copper River Basins. Many of our projects develop large scale data and information that spans the US-Canada border. Our work is focused on benefiting shared natural landscapes rather than being limited by our political or drawn borders.


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Our Region

The Northwest Boreal Partnership focuses our work and network of partners within the boreal forest biome and includes Southcentral and Interior Alaska, most of the Yukon Territory, the northern portion of British Columbia, and the western half of the Northwest Territories. The area includes over 330 million acres, and encompasses large portions of the Yukon River, Kuskokwim River, Susitna River, and Copper River Basins, as well as portions of the traditional lands of the Dené Athabascan, Gwich’in, Tagish, and Tlingit peoples.

Our Success Stories

  • Northwest Boreal Partnership

    Indigenous Led Land Planning in Alaska and Canada

    For three weeks in April & May, the Northern Latitudes Partnerships team, in partnership with US Fish & Wildlife Service and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Tribal Governance Program, offered a 6-part virtual course on “Indigenous-Led Land Planning”. The course, which drew in over 250 registered participants, featured distinguished speakers from Alaska and western Canada[…..]

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  • Aleutian & Bering Sea Initiative / Northwest Boreal Partnership / Western Alaska Partnership

    Northern Connections: Bridging Indigenous Knowledge & Observation Efforts

    With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Northwest Boreal Partnership is helping to lead a collaboration of 17 organizations, including Indigenous organizations and universities, government agencies, and non-profits. The Northern Connections program aims to support and connect Indigenous-led science and knowledge programs focused on food security, land and water stewardship, environmental changes, and climate[…..]

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  • Aleutian & Bering Sea Initiative / Northwest Boreal Partnership / Western Alaska Partnership

    Expanding Community-Based Monitoring to Address Rapid Environmental Change

    The Northern Latitudes Partnerships are collaborating with the Aleut Community of St. Paul to help expand the Indigenous Sentinels Network to provide remote Indigenous communities with tools, training, networking and convening, coordination, and new capacity for ecological, environmental, and climate monitoring. Tribes and Canadian First Nations see real potential for self-determination through data they collect,[…..]

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    New Book Released: Drivers of Landscape Change in the Northwest Boreal Region

    Boreal ecosystems are inherently dynamic and continually change over decades to millennia. The braided rivers that shape the valleys and wetlands continually change course, creating and removing vast wetlands and peatlands. Glacial melt, erosion, fires, permafrost dynamics, and wind-blown loess are among the shaping forces of the landscape. As a result, species interactions and ecosystem[…..]

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