Drivers of tall shrub proliferation adjacent to the Dempster Highway, Northwest Territories, Canada by Emily A Cameron, Trevor C Lantz

“…In this study we investigated the impact of road construction and maintenance on vegetation structure and biomass along the Dempster Highway where it crosses the Peel Plateau in the Northwest Territories. …”
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Young gravel-pit lakes along Canada’s Dempster Highway: How do they compare with natural lakes? by Jasmina M. Vucic, Rachel S. Cohen, Derek K. Gray, Alyssa D. Murdoch, Arnab Shuvo, Sapna Sharma

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Impacts of shrub removal on snow and near-surface thermal conditions in permafrost terrain adjacent to the Dempster Highway, NT, Canada by Emily A. Cameron, Trevor C. Lantz, Steven V. Kokelj

“…The Peel Plateau, NT, Canada, is an area underlain by warm continuous permafrost where changes in soil moisture, snow conditions, and shrub density have increased ground temperatures next to the Dempster Highway. In this study, ground temperatures, snow, and thaw depth were monitored before and after tall shrub removal (2014). …”
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Impacts of variations in snow cover on permafrost stability, including simulated snow management, Dempster Highway, Peel Plateau, Northwest Territories by H. Brendan O’Neill, Chris R. Burn

“…Permafrost conditions were examined near the Dempster Highway embankment on Peel Plateau, Northwest Territories. …”
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"Letting the leaders pass": barriers to using traditional ecological knowledge in comanagement as the basis of formal hunting regulations by Elisabeth Padilla, Gary P. Kofinas

“…We based the study on the Porcupine Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Herd "let the leaders pass" policy, established for the Dempster Highway of the Western Canadian Arctic, and identified conditions creating barriers in the successful application of TEK through comanagement. …”
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Simulating future climate change impacts on snow- and ice-related driving hazards in Arctic-boreal regions by Heather E Greaves, Natalie T Boelman, Todd J Brinkman, Glen E Liston, Laura R Prugh, Adele K Reinking

“…To gain insight into future hazardous driving conditions, we built Random Forest models that predict the occurrence of hazardous driving conditions by linking snow, ice, and weather simulated by a spatially explicit modeling system (SnowModel) to archived road condition reports from two highly trafficked all-season northern roads: the Dalton Highway (Alaska, USA) and Dempster Highway (Yukon, Canada). We applied these models to downscaled future climate trajectories for the study period of 2006–2100. …”
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