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Manitoba Nature Notebook

Welcome to our Manitoba Nature Notebook Blog, where conservation meets curiosity.

Explore stories, insights, and updates focused on protecting Manitoba's lands and waters. Through campaign updates, hike highlights, and inspiring nature fun, we aim to deepen your connection to Manitoba and empower you to take action.

Whether you’re a student, educator, or nature enthusiast, join us in learning, protecting, and celebrating the places we call home—one blog post at a time.

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February 27th, 2009

Louisiana Pacific OSB Plant in Manitoba Seeks Government Approval to Permanently Decommission Pollut

Back in the 1990s when Louisiana Pacific (LP) wanted to construct a new Oriented Strand Board (OSB) plant near Swan River MB., citizens raised legitimate concerns about Louisiana Pacific’s past track record in the United States and the type and amount of toxic chemicals to be emitted from the new

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February 11th, 2009

Boreal Forest tract worth $120 M per year

A team of Winnipeg-based researchers has calculated that keeping intact a 40,000-square-kilometre tract of boreal forest in Manitoba and Ontario is worth upwards of $120 million per year. The year-long study, conducted by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, will form part of the application package that the non-profit Pimachiowin

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February 11th, 2009

Bands get east-side planning authority

The Doer government introduced legislation Monday that paves the way for a world heritage site on the east side of Lake Winnipeg and effectively bans the construction of a power line through the boreal forest. “This land is part of us,” said Sophia Rabliouskis, a Poplar River First Nation band

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February 11th, 2009

Urgency growing to protect Manitoba’s Boreal caribou habitat: author to speak this evening

Winnipeg – One of Canada’s leading experts on Boreal wildlife, and co-author of a new book on the fate of Canada’s caribou, will be delivering a strong message to Manitobans when she speaks at an event organized by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) tonight at the Winnipeg Art

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February 10th, 2009

Canada’s vast boreal forests must be protected

Living in times of unprecedented climate change has given way to new uncertainties. Every day, new evidence points to fundamental changes in our natural world. Most recently, there is more news that warming temperatures are killing our forests (“Tree deaths skyrocketing,” Ottawa Citizen, Jan. 23). It’s tempting to respond with

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February 3rd, 2009

1,400 workers affected as Tembec temporarily idles mills in Manitoba, B.C. and Ontario

TEMISCAMING, Que. – Forestry firm Tembec (TSX:TMB) is temporarily closing mills in British Columbia, Manitoba and Ontario as pulp and paper market conditions remain soggy. The company says about 1,400 people will be affected by layoffs that will range from two weeks to indefinitely.In Manitoba, the Pine Falls newsprint mill

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January 18th, 2009

PROVINCE BOOSTS FUNDING FOR UNESCO BID

Manitoba’s annual funding support for the bid to designate part of the Manitoba-Ontario boreal forest as a UNESCO World Heritage Site has been doubled, Conservation Minister Stan Struthers announced today.“With increased funding, the Pimachiowin Aki Corporation will beable make a stronger case for Manitoba’s boreal forest to standalongside the pyramids

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November 24th, 2008

Proposed Legislative Amendments Would Prohibit Commercial Logging in 79 of 80 Provincial Parks

The phasing out of commercial logging in 79 of 80 provincial parks and future parks would become a reality through passage of proposed amendments to the Forest Act introduced today by Conservation Minister Stan Struthers. “The province, in partnership with industry, has moved to end long-term contracts for logging companies

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November 21st, 2008

PROVINCE PROPOSES HISTORIC CHANGES TO PRESERVE PROVINCIAL PARKS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

The provincial government will introduce legislation which would prohibit logging in 79 out of 80 provincial parks and all future parks effective April 1, 2009, Premier Gary Doer announced today. “This is an historic step forward in our government’s efforts topreserve and protect the environment and support our rapidlygrowing recreational

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November 21st, 2008

Province eliminating logging in provincial parks

Logging in all but one of Manitoba’s 80 provincial parks will stop this spring, the Doer government said today. The move will see only logging in Duck Mountain Provincial Park continue, Conservation Minister Stan Struthers said at a news conference a day after the ban was announced in yesterday’s throne

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November 21st, 2008

NDP gets into the banning business

Parts of Thursday’s throne speech read like a grocery list of what the Doer government plans to ban. The proposed bans, which are intended to protect the public and the environment, will touch almost every Manitoban in the coming months. The three big ones: yakking on a cellphone or text

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November 20th, 2008

Cariboo threatened, but there’s still hope: expert

CANADA’S caribou populations might be pushed to the brink, but one prominent conservationist says it’s not too late to turn things around. “We have a rare chance in this world where we can learn from the past, and learn from the patterns of the past and do something different,” said