The Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation recently won a court decision to prevent YTG from granting a 65 hectare agricultural lease to farmer Larry Paulson. According to the Yukon News, they believed the lease could have an adverse effect on elder Johnny Sam’s trap line as well as on the surrounding environment, wildlife values and the First Nation as a whole because they would no longer be able to hunt on that parcel of land, and because the lease would have overlapped one half of one percent of the trap line. Apparently, they therefore assumed that there would be fewer animals to harvest. This assumption, however, is not correct.      more