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Land Administration: Client Service Standards

PDF • 359.59KB
Publication Date
May 2025
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  • Promotional

Applicant’s Guide

PDF • 428.42KB
Publication Date
September 2024

Pause of Collections for Eligible Recreational-Type Lease Holders

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Backgrounder - Environmental Guideline for Contaminated Sites

PDF • 177.23KB
Publication Date
June 2023

Backgrounder - Environmental Guideline for Contaminated Sites

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Transfer of Public Land to Communities - Process Guide

PDF • 401.92KB
Publication Date
June 2022

The following procedure outlines the general process by which the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) will undertake the transfer of certain public land which are either vacant or already...

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Land Use and Sustainability Appraisal Guidelines

PDF • 332.33KB
Publication Date
April 2022

These guidelines set out when and how a Land Use Sustainability Appraisal should be completed and promote a consistent approach for integrating the nine objectives into GNWT decision processes. For...

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Bill Summary - Public Land Act

PDF • 957.62KB
Publication Date
January 2021
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Frequently Asked Questions about Unauthorized Occupancy

PDF • 2.42MB
Publication Date
January 2021

Frequently asked questions about unauthorized occupancy.

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Evaluating Unauthorized Occupancies Factsheet

PDF • 2.12MB
Publication Date
January 2021

The Department of Lands has recently updated and harmonized its land management standards and criteria for leases for cabins. The Department of Lands will be evaluating Unauthorized Occupancies that...

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First Notice Untenured Occupancy of Public Land (Posting Notice)

PDF • 198.16KB
Publication Date
January 2021

The document linked here is currently only in English, it is a notice that informs an occupant of a structure on public land without proper authorization that they need to contact the Department of...

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I’ve received a First Notice – now what?

PDF • 1.83MB
Publication Date
January 2021

As a first step, the Department of Lands is posting all structures that are occupying public land without a lease or tenure instrument in place to gather information on the nature of the occupancy...

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Benefits of having a lease factsheet

PDF • 1.65MB
Publication Date
January 2021

Benefits of having a lease

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What we heard - Dolomite Lake 2

PDF • 1.64MB
Publication Date
August 2018

A summary of the comments from the March series of public engagements held in Inuvik. This was the second of two public engagements that will support the creation of the Dolomite Lake Recreation...

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What we heard - Dolomite Lake

PDF • 1.67MB
Publication Date
March 2018

A summary of the comments from the February series of public engagements held in Inuvik. These findings will help inform the Dolomite Lake Recreation Management Plan.

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Yellowknife periphery area - study area map

PDF • 273.63KB
Publication Date
August 2017

Updated Map

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Map - Highway 3 and 4 Focus Area hold

PDF • 1.33MB
Publication Date
August 2017
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Project Assessment Policy

Publication Date
April 2017
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Recreational Leasing Management Framework

PDF • 22.08MB
Publication Date
March 2017

You can read the full Recreational Leasing Management Framework online as well.

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  • Land Use, Mapping, and Registries
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RLMF 2016 - Public Engagement Summary Report

PDF • 2.01MB
Publication Date
February 2017

This report presents the main ideas expressed at the sessions. The report does not include verbatim comments from all participants but rather captures the diversity of public opinions related to the...

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Norman Wells Resource Co-management Workshop Agenda

PDF • 248.5KB
Publication Date
January 2017

The Resource Co-Management Workshop held in Norman Wells, February 7-8, 2017, at the Denis Drolet Community Hall. This event was hosted by the co-management Boards in the Sahtu Region and the...

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Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act 2016 Workshop Summary Report ​

PDF • 8.73MB
Publication Date
June 2016

The Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act (MVRMA) Workshop was held on January 12th and 13th 2016 at the Explorer Hotel, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

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