>>508622839 (OP)There's a huge part of the interior plains, from northern alberta, north to great bear lake, and all along the mackenzie, to the arctic coast, that is prime for development.
It's not on the sheild, so water can drain and soil can be built. There's profitable farms almost all the way to the northern border of alberta. Theres many high yielding vegetables, fuit bushes, that can be grown as far north as colville lake or fort mcferson without a greenhouse. and i have been working on collecting barley, and breeding dry peas that mature in around 60 days.
Tons of mining and fossil fuels. Some timber and commercial fisheries.
It is a lot warmer than the rest of the northern territories, the treeline extends all the way to the arctic coast on the interior plains.
Theres a railroad that runs to slave lake. And the mckenzie river is long and good enough to handle 900ft barges. It runs from slave lake to the delta.
Intensive grazing would turn the heath into prairies and increase soil building speed