On February 23, 2021, following their first bilateral meeting, President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau released the “Roadmap for a Renewed U.S. – Canada Partnership” within which they recognized the importance of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and “agreed to work together to help safeguard the Porcupine caribou herd calving grounds that are invaluable to the Gwich’in and Inuvialuit people’s culture and subsistence.”

Response from Vuntut Gwitchin Government is available here.

Response from Government of Yukon Minister of Environment, Minister Frost, is available here.