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Fisherman Lake Area (Brian Ronaghan, Permit #99-889)
Chevron Canada Resources plans to construct a 36-km pipeline in the Franklin Mountains near Fort Liard. The pipeline would join an existing well south of Mount Flett and the Westcoast Transmission pipeline north of Fisherman Lake, near Pointed Mountain. An alternate route for the project would involve an 8.5- km pipeline, north from the well to a Ranger Oil P66A pipeline just east of a saddle in the Liard Range. Brian Ronaghan of Golder Associates and Brian Hope and Julian Sassie of Fort Liard examined areas proposed for development for sites of archaeological and cultural interest.
The routes parallel the base of the eastern slopes of the mountains before crossing the southern part of the range to descend into the Fisherman Lake basin. Many sites are known to occur around the shores of Fisherman Lake but none of these will be affected because the pipeline is planned for areas north and east of the lake.
5. Community assistants from Fort Liard, Brian Hope and Julian Sassie.
The areas examined occur in dense forest, with several deeply cut stream valleys. No new archaeological sites were found but a traditional tent frame campsite was recorded along the northern alternate pipeline. This camp was used for fall hunting by the Johnny Klondike Jr. family in the 1980s. The pipeline route will be altered to avoid this site. The community advisors for this project indicated that most traditional use of the area took place on the shores of Fisherman Lake or along the Liard River and that there is little chance that the pipeline will affect important sites or areas.
