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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.

Visit every Friday for a new story.

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November 19th, 2008

Caribou health mirrors environment

So goes the North, so go the caribou; so go the caribou, so goes the North. That is the message an Ontario-based researcher will bring to the Winnipeg Art Gallery tomorrow night as she discusses the fate of an animal she calls “a treasure” to Canada. Justina Ray, executive director

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November 5th, 2008

Manitoba Government Failing on Promise to Protect 5 Major Wilderness Areas

For Immediate release Fisher River Cree Nation (FRCN) and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) are accusing Premier Doer of dragging his feet on his promise to designate five major protected areas by 2010. The groups stated that swiftly establishing the proposed Fisher Bay provincial park on the south

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October 14th, 2008

Public hearings slated for new hydro line

WHERE will it go? How big will it be? What does it mean to me? Those are just three questions Manitoba Hydro officials will answer in the coming weeks as the Crown corporation holds public hearings on its new $2-billion transmission line to be built down the west side of

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October 10th, 2008

Ainsworth Announces Termination of Commitment Agreement With Manitoba Government

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA—Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. (“Ainsworth”) (TSX:ANS) announced today that it has terminated a commitment agreement with the Government of Manitoba on a planned engineered wood production facility in an area northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba.The May 2006 agreement contemplated the issuance of a Forest Management License for 838,000 cubic

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October 9th, 2008

Liberals place cards on table

OTTAWA—The “richer, fairer, greener” Liberal government proposed by Stéphane Dion would spend millions to clean up Lake Winnipeg, protect the boreal forest, resurrect the Kelowna Accord and pour funding into Manitoba’s dream of becoming a clean energy hub for Canada. Dion unveiled his party’s platform Monday in the nation’s capital

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October 3rd, 2008

NEW CONSERVATION DISTRICT BEGINS WORK IN THE INTERLAKE AREA

LUNDAR – The new West Interlake Watershed Conservation District is being launched with a $150,000 provincial startup grant, Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick announced at the organization’s new office here today. “We are pleased to work closely with local groups such as thisnew conservation district who show insight and a

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October 2nd, 2008

Proposed BiPole 3 Major Hydro Corridor Display

On October 2nd, Manitoba Hydro conducted an open house to provide information and receive feedback on the proposed BiPole 3 major hydro corridor. As Manitoba Hydro is not providing the informational displays online, we’ve taken matters into our own hands by photographing all the visuals and posting them digitally for

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September 24th, 2008

Study shows big drop in common Manitoba birds

IT might be time to rethink our name for the common grackle. The seemingly ubiquitous noisy black bird is one of 20 common North American birds whose numbers have plummeted by at least 50 per cent in the past four decades, according to a report from BirdLife International. Many of

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September 24th, 2008

Rallies planned to stop logging

AN environmental group hasn’t given up the fight to stop logging in provincial parks in Manitoba—one of the last provinces to allow the practice in those areas. During a week-long campaign that wraps up Friday, members of the Wilderness Committee and its supporters are holding daily rallies in Winnipeg to

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July 31st, 2008

Provinces join forces to protect wilderness

Manitoba and Ontario joined forces Tuesday to protect a 9,400 square-kilometres swath of wilderness that straddles both provinces. But environmentalists said the move is more a bureaucratic one that does little to prevent mining and logging or to protect woodland caribou. “Basically, they’re pushing the caribou out of Manitoba,” Eric

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July 31st, 2008

Ontario, Manitoba establish wilderness area

TORONTO—The governments of Ontario and Manitoba have agreed on the establishment of an interprovincial wilderness area along the border of the two provinces, but environmental groups say the move doesn’t do enough to protect endangered species. The region covers more than 9,400 square kilometres of land, including Ontario’s Woodland Caribou

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July 30th, 2008

MANITOBA AND ONTARIO TO ESTABLISH CANADA’S FIRST INTERPROVINCIAL WILDERNESS AREA

Ontario and Manitoba will develop a unique new way for provinces to co-operate both on conserving valuable natural habitat and ensuring proper recreation use into the future with the establishment of Canada’s first interprovincial wilderness area, Manitoba Conservation Minister Stan Struthers and Ontario Natural Resources Minister Donna Cansfield announced today.