Taiga Cordillera

Average temperatures: from 6.5 C to 10 C in summer and -25 C to -19.5 C in winter Landscape: mountainous wilderness with foothills and narrow valleys; permafrost underlies most of this area, including most wetlands; Arctic tundra occurs in the north with taiga or open woodland in the south Wildlife: Dall sheep, woodland and barren ground caribou, moose, mountain goat, black and grizzly bear, wolf, lynx, Arctic ground squirrel, American pika, hoary marmot and wolverine; birds include the gyrfalcon, willow and rock ptarmigans and waterfowl Population: about 80 per cent of the population (about 300 people) lives in Old Crow, now Yukon’s northernmost settlement