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Land file · Candidate 7 · Quad 105 D/9 · Yukon

Marsh Lake Farm 7

A 11.8-hectare (29.2-acre) screening candidate in Quad 105 D/9, about 209 by 693 metres. It rises from 670 to 689 m and faces mostly south-east. The nearest mapped road, M'Clintock Valley Road, is 939 m away and None is 35 m away. This file shows the ground in three dimensions, the valley around it, the screening record and a site designer for planning the farm before the application is written.

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SPRUCESTEAD · CANDIDATE 7SCREENED 30 SEP 2026
Area
11.80 ha (29.2 acres), 209 × 693 m
Centre
60°36′41″ N, 134°28′10″ W
Elevation
670–689 m; median slope 3.2°
Access
M'Clintock Valley Road, 939 m (GeoYukon road network)
Water
None, 35 m
Community
Mount Lorne, 31 km (CGNDB)
Territory
Kwanlin Dün First Nation, Ta'an Kwäch'än Council and Taku River Tlingit First Nation traditional territories
Terrain
LiDAR bare earth (NRCan HRDEM)
Score
Not suitability scored; live geometry screen
Screen
No conflict on checked layers · 4 review flags below
Survey-style plan of the 11.9 hectare candidate drawn from the terrain, with its boundary in red.
The parcel drawn as a survey-style plan from the LiDAR terrain and GeoYukon records. The red line is the screened boundary, simplified to 24 corners. Not a legal survey.

Review

The parcel is 206 m from Kwanlin Dün First Nation Settlement Land (Lot 1078). The application asks you to name the traditional territories and engage the First Nations before you apply.

Review

Field-assessed capability mapping over the parcel shows Class 5 or better (5C ). Title needs at least 80% of the parcel to be Class 5 or better; the Branch's soil investigation decides.

Review

The parcel is inside the Marsh Lake Study Area. Confirm the plan's designation allows agricultural land here before applying.

Review

The nearest mapped road, M'Clintock Valley Road, is 939 m away. The rule asks for a maintained road within 1 km; maintenance status is not in the map data.

Checked on 30 Sep 2026 against GeoYukon land tenure (surveyed and titled parcels, dispositions, applications, notations, holds), First Nation Settlement Land, parks, fire history and land-planning layers. A clear result means no conflict was found in those layers on that date. It is not a legal determination of availability. Open the dated evidence file.

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Plate I

The valley

The Government of Yukon's satellite composite, 16 km square around the parcel, draped on ArcticDEM elevation. Vertical scale is doubled.

Yukon Composite 150 cm (SPOT-6/7), Government of Yukon · ArcticDEM v4.1 10 m, Polar Geospatial Center.

Rivers and roads

The longest named features in this 16 km: M'Clintock River, Yukon River, Marsh Lake, Alaska Highway and Michie Creek.

Names from the GeoYukon watercourse and road network layers.

The candidate

The red outline is the 11.9-hectare candidate.

Plate II

What we checked, and what we found

Every layer below was queried for this outline on 30 Sep 2026. Hard layers block a candidate; flagged and nearby layers are listed above for review. The parcel lies within the Kwanlin Dün First Nation, Ta'an Kwäch'än Council and Taku River Tlingit First Nation traditional territories.

LayerHow it countsResultQueried
Surveyed and titled land parcelsBlocksNone found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
Titled agricultural parcelsBlocksNone found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
Active land applicationsBlocksNone found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
Land dispositionsBlocks unless an easementNone found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
Agricultural dispositionsBlocksNone found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
Agricultural applicationsBlocksNone found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
Development holdsBlocksNone found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
First Nation Settlement LandBlocksNone found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
First Nation interim protected landBlocksNone found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
Parks and protected areasBlocksNone found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
Land licencesFlag for reviewNone found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
Land notationsFlag for reviewNone found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
Surveyed easementsFlag for reviewNone found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
Civic addressesBlocks (address points)None found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
Local area and land use plansFlag for review1 found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
Fire historyContextNone found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
First Nation traditional territoriesContext3 found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
First Nation heritage routes (within 500 m)NearbyNone found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
Settlement Land nearby (within 500 m)Nearby1 found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC
Field-assessed agricultural capability (within 500 m)Nearby17 found2026-09-30 17:17 UTC

Screened polygon (24 vertices, 11.87 ha) simplified by up to 0 m to 24 corners (11.87 ha). Services: GeoYukon, Government of Yukon. Every row links to the service that was queried in the evidence file.

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Plate III

The ground

The parcel and the ground around it: 1.28 km square on a 1.25 m grid. You can drag to turn the model.

NRCan HRDEM LiDAR bare earth, with the ArcticDEM v4.1 2 m surface for trees and buildings.

2009

The Government of Yukon orthophoto from 2009, draped on the same terrain.

Government of Yukon orthophoto 'KDFN_R28_29_44_5' (2009 KFN settlement lands aerial survey), GY Aerial_Imagery ImageServer.

2004

The Government of Yukon orthophoto from 2004, draped on the same terrain.

Government of Yukon orthophoto 'Ortho_GoldenTriangleRegion85' (2004 Southern Lakes Region roads aerial survey), GY Aerial_Imagery ImageServer.

Today

Yukon Composite 150 cm satellite imagery. What stands on the parcel now sets how much clearing there is and what timber has to be salvaged.

Agreements for Sale require merchantable timber to be salvaged.

The plan

The same ground drawn as a survey plan: contours every 2 m and the boundary with bearings and distances in metres and chains, with neighbouring Settlement Land and titled lots where they fall in the tile.

A modern drawing in the manner of a Dominion Land Survey plan. It is not a legal survey.

Slope

72% of the parcel is under 6°, which is easy to cultivate. 16% is 9° or steeper.

Summer sun

Clear-sky sunshine from 19 May to 13 September on each 2.5 m cell, compared with flat ground: 0.90 to 1.07 across the parcel. That matters most for a greenhouse and berries.

Where cold air settles

On still nights cold air drains downhill and pools in hollows. Darker blue marks ground lower than its surroundings, where frost comes first; 5% of the parcel is in such a hollow.

Air-drainage rule from the Yukon Garden Handbook (1987), applied to the terrain.

Plate IV

Slope, sun, cold air and water

Four measurements on a 2.5 m grid, computed from the terrain. The site designer uses them to check where each building and crop goes.

Slope. Pale under 3°, dark over 12°.
Summer sun, 0.90–1.07 of flat ground.
Cold air. Blue hollows frost first.
Wetness. Concave, low ground holds water.
7.1 hato be cleared and seeded before title

The Agreement for Sale gives up to seven years to clear, break, cultivate and seed at least 60% of a soil-based parcel. Ground used to store brush and stumps does not count.

Cultivating Our Future: 2020 Yukon Agriculture Policy, B-4 · Agriculture land development guidelines

Share of the parcel by slope
under 3°
44.7%
3–6°
27.6%
6–9°
11.3%
9° and over
16.3%

Slope from the LiDAR bare-earth surface on a 2.5 m grid.

Plate V · Site designer

Design the farm

An example plan fitted to this outline is loaded so you can see how it works. Move, reshape or delete anything. Pick a tool on the left, then click the ground to place it. Fields, roads, fences and shelterbelts take several clicks; double-click or press Enter to finish. Every change is checked against the rules on the right.

Changes are saved in this browser only.

Select a tool to add to the plan, or click something on the ground to edit it.
Plate VI

The site plan

Your design, drawn to scale with the items the Farm Development Plan asks for in Section 2A: buildings with dimensions, access, shelterbelts, field layout, fence lines and water sources. It updates as you edit.

The site plan draws when the designer has loaded.

Farm Development Plan form, Section 2A · Agricultural Land Application YG(3344EMR) Rev.02/2025

Plate VII

From application to title

The Land Package turns this file and your design into the documents the Agriculture Branch reviews. Download the design file above and attach it to your project intake. The government's own fee is $25 plus GST.

  1. Day 0

    Apply

    Form YG3344 with a location map at 1:30,000 or 1:50,000 and corner coordinates to the second.

  2. Within 10 days

    Preliminary screen

    The Branch confirms the site is available and accepts or rejects.

  3. Within 60 days

    Farm Development Plan

    Developments at least equal to the land value, with the site plan. Scored out of 1,360; 700 to pass.

  4. Then

    Soil and heritage

    Branch soil investigation and a heritage assessment.

  5. 14-day comment minimum

    YESAB review

    Governments, First Nations and the public comment. Yukon accepts, rejects or varies the result.

  6. Up to 7 years

    Agreement for Sale

    Survey, then develop: 60% cleared and seeded before title transfers.

LEAF 1

Application answers

YG3344 filled from this file: location, access, adjacent uses, traditional territories, corner coordinates.

LEAF 2

Location map

NTS reference, north arrow, scale, road kilometre, access, nearby water.

LEAF 3

Site plan

The drawing above, with a schedule of buildings, fields, fences and water.

LEAF 4

Development schedule

Year-by-year clearing and building plan that reaches 60% before the Agreement ends.

LEAF 5

Evidence ledger

Every layer checked, with source, date and result, and the list of items to confirm with the Branch.

Stages from the application form (Rev.02/2025, p.1) and yukon.ca/en/apply-agriculture-land. YESAB comment periods from yesab.ca. FDP scoring from the Farm Development Plan form.