The Liard River goes through the Yukon, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories. It is 1,115 kilometres, or 693 miles. The river has about 277,100 square kilometres or 107,000 square miles of water. There are dangerous amounts of natural gas coming out of the ground under the river.
Task two
The upper Liard river priority area has various natural resources. They include Sedex deposits, Tin-Tungsten deposits, oil and gas wells and lots of forestry. The upper liar river priority area also has lots of animals there to help feed their population. Some of this animals are rainbow trout, artic grayling, northern pike and lots more.
Fun Fact: There was 10 forest fires in the upper Liard river priority area in 2010
task 3 This is a unique place because of many things. Some include the Liard river hot springs which are filled by the liard river. Many things live in the Liard river hot springs area some include hawks and king fishers. It is also surrounded by the boreal forest. Another unique thing is the bird watching. Some birds here are great horned owls, eagles and many more. Some more unique things are the wildlife watching and the ice fishing or fishing. These are unique from anywhere else because you can see grizzly bears (which are almost extinct), black bears, moose, cougars, a herd of buffalo and wolves. When you go ice fishing you can see many wonderful fish. Some include rainbow trout, arctic grayling and northern pike. You can also go kayaking or canoeing here, it is awesome because of the two big lakes to do this activity in. They are Watson lake and Muncho lake. The rapids in the Liard river are wonderful thats why this is a very popular place to go kayaking and river rafting. Another very unique occurrence in this region is the appearance of the Aurora Borealis (northern lights).
Task 4
There are lots animals, plants and trees in the upper Liard river priority area. Some animals include black bears, grizzly bears, buffalo, moose, wolves, cougars, rainbow trout, arctic grayling, and northern pike. The forest is a boreal spruce forest that is very big and has lots of forest fires. Some types of deciduous trees that are in this area are willow, white birch and trembling aspen. Some examples of the coniferous trees are black and white spruce, lodgepole pines and tamarack. Fun fact: The Tamarack tree is the only coniferous tree that loses its needles in the winter. Some plants in this area are arctic ferns, arctic cotton, asters, dwarf fireweed, lupins, sedum, pasqueflower and wild roses. A lot of the plants in the liard priority area are low lying plants to protect themselves from the cold winters.