K'agee Tu First Nation (KTFN) Community Based Monitoring of Kakisa River watershed

The Tathlina Lake area is a culturally and economically significant area for the Ka'a'gee Tu First Nation, as Band members and their ancestors have lived, hunted, trapped and fished in the area for thousands of years. The lake supports a small commercial fishery, which employs KTFN members and contributes significantly to the economy of the community. The area is also downstream of one of the only producing oil and gas fields in the NWT, in the Cameron Hills. Multiple resource pressures and environmental change in the region have led the KTFN to question the cumulative effects of these influences on the current and future health of the aquatic system of the Tathlina watershed. An NWT CIMP funded project.