Lac La Martre - Willow Lake Area: Thies covers pall the aren between 
Great Slave Lake, the MacKenzie River, Bear River, and Great Bear Late ond 
the Fre-Cambrian Shield, with the exception of the area occupled by the Horn 
and Cartridge Mountains. The area is low, relatively flat, with innumerable 
shallow lakes and ponds. The land supports a ecrubby growth of spruce, jack 
pine, and aspen and there are many wide sedge meadows which give the area a 
park-like appearance. Hany, of the lakes appear to be highly alkaline, with 
exposed marging of white and pink salte. Many amaller ponde have rank growthe 
of gattalla anc euperfictally appear to be ideal habitat - much better than 
the sample shows. 
The Fee] River Plateau and the srear both east and weat of the Arctic 
Red River are ao eimilar in appearance that one d#ecription will fit all three, 
In general they are relatively flat with many ahallow muskee type lakes, the 
inter-lake areas being covered with etunted spruce and open muakega. The lakes 
appear to be relatively #terile as far ae vegetation 12 concerned. The fact 
that the Peel River Flateau is one thousand feet higher than the other two 
aress roseibly accounte for the Lower waterfowl! population found there, 
reTticular]: during a late epring euch as jJuet occurred. 
The Furcupine-Bell River Flats are eimilar toc the above-described 
arene but Jie weet of the continental divide. It is a relatively small aren 
of lakes and ponds situated at the junction of the Bell with the Porcupine 
Fiver. The land Level is approximately the eame elevation ae the Old Crow 
finte, shout two thousand feet, and no doubt the climatic factore are similar, 
Yhns sient Tundra weet of the MacKenzie River, bordering the mountaine, 
is a velativ ly narrow atrip cf rolling uplanda dotted with ponds and lakes 
and deeply digeected by the rivere and creeks flowing eset from the mountains. 
It ie similar in appearance to the upland tundra eaet of the MacKenzie River 
but supports a much lower waterfowl population. 
The Upland Tundra west of Coppermine hae fewer water areas than that 
between the Anderaon and MacKenzie Bivere, and these are more sterile, which 
ie reflected in a very meager waterfowl population. 
The two samples made in the Pre-Cambrian Barrenk - between the Tree 
River and Bathuret Inlet and between Bathuret Inlet and Perry River, covered 
very eimilar terrain - extremely rough, rmgged, barren rock hille rieing to 
about fifteen hundred feet surrounding Bathuret Inlet and flattening out to 
fairly level rocky plateaus both east and weet. Near Tree River the terrain 
Again becomes rugged and broken. Near the coast there are numerous basaltic 
cliff formations overrlding the granite. Fonds and lakes are numerous but 
are practically eterile, the waterfowl population being almoet non-existent. 
