The Lower Hyland River Wildlands study : Background report and recommendations for ecosystem-based forest management in the Hyland River Watershed

Over the years this unsustainable cut has lead to the inevitable depletion of the resource and has resulted in industry looking to the economically marginal forests of northern boreal forests. [...] The terrain in the upper study area is the glaciated U-shaped valley bottom framed between the rugged mountains and extensive alpine habitats of the Selwyn Mountains Ecoregion. [...] This reach contains the majority of accessible upland forest in the lower Hyland valley and includes a portion of the Hyland block of the Kaska Forest Resources Timber Harvest Area. [...] Often, concepts of biodiversity are misinterpreted with the rationale that the greater the biodiversity, the better/healthier/more valuable the ecosystem. [...] The limited number and area of wetlands in the SE Yukon enhance the value of each existing wetland.