Norman Barichello

Norman Barichello earned a master’s degree in science from the University of British Columbia in the 1970s. He became a wildlife biologist for the Yukon Government, responsible for the management of Dalls sheep and mountain goats. His work expanded to include work as an advisor for First Nation governments, and he became an advocate for land conservation with the Kaska Dena Council. He was an adjunct professor at Yukon College and started Dechenia Wilderness Lodge in 1990. The lodge hosted naturalists and students in an ongoing Indigenous guardian education program. He developed a curriculum focused on caribou, authorized by the Yukon Department of Education. In 2020, Barichello was working on persuading governments to support an Indigenous Protected Conserved Area for part of the Ross River area. He helped to produce caribou videos and published a book, Gyrfalcon: The One Who Stays All Winter, in 2019, Norman Barichello received the 2020 Yukon Conservation Society’s Gerry Couture Stewardship Award for his outstanding personal dedication to natural resource conservation.¹⁾