Blogs

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.

Placeholder Image

Placeholder Image

Placeholder Image

Featured image for “Tembec closes the door on recycling paper”

March 15th, 2008

Tembec closes the door on recycling paper

The province’s only paper mill won’t use recycled newspapers in its paper production, a move which may have little effect on provincial recycling programs but is being criticized by environmentalists. Tembec, a paper mill company which is based in Quebec but owns the facility in Pine Falls, announced this week

Featured image for “New eco-website lobbies for boreal forest”

March 5th, 2008

New eco-website lobbies for boreal forest

Cree knowledge keeper Mary Crate must drive hundreds of kilometres to find medicinal roots that once grew outside her back door. So Tuesday she took a 220-kilometre drive south from her home in Fisher River First Nation to back a new environmental website designed to exert public pressure to protect

Featured image for “Boreal forest stories tapped”

March 5th, 2008

Boreal forest stories tapped

The knowledge of aboriginal leaders is being paired up with technology to help conserve and protect Manitoba’s boreal forests through the Aboriginal Boreal Conservation Leaders Project. “I think this will be a valuable contribution to Manitoban society,” said Ron Theissen, executive director of the Manitoba chapter of the Canadian Parks

Featured image for “Group protests logging in parks”

February 28th, 2008

Group protests logging in parks

Logging, bulldozing and mining activity are not usually associated with provincial parks, but those things happen in Manitoba parks, according to the Wilderness Committee. “We need to let people know the government is failing us,” said Eric Reder, campaign director for the non-profit organization. Reder added the NDP government has

Featured image for “Dozens gather to protest logging in provincial parks”

February 28th, 2008

Dozens gather to protest logging in provincial parks

THE Doer government continues to ignore decades-old advice to stop industrial logging in Manitoba’s provincial parks, local environmentalists charged Wednesday. About 50 of them gathered on the steps of the Manitoba Legislature for a noon-hour rally to pressure the province not to renegotiate licences that will allow big forestry companies

Featured image for “Rally today to promote park protection”

February 27th, 2008

Rally today to promote park protection

THE Western Canada Wilderness Committee is holding a rally today on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature to promote the protection of Manitoba’s parks and forests. The rally is set for noon to 2 p.m. The wilderness committee is encouraging conservation groups and concerned individuals to attend, stating it wants

Featured image for “Group wants Manitoba to end logging in parks”

February 27th, 2008

Group wants Manitoba to end logging in parks

Local environmentalists today demanded the Doer government end industrial logging in Manitoba’s provincial parks. About 50 people, who dubbed themselves Tree-Huggers Anonymous, held a noon-hour rally on the steps of the Manitoba Legislature. The group, made up of local environmentalists, said the government is currently negotiating long-term contracts with large

Featured image for “Group opposes logging in parks”

February 11th, 2008

Group opposes logging in parks

The Manitoba office of a Vancouver-based environmental group wants to focus an upcoming rally at the legislative grounds on logging and mining in provincial parks. In particular, the Wilderness Committee hopes the Feb. 27 rally can sway the province’s decision on whether to grant decades-long logging agreements for Nopiming and

Featured image for “NDP intent on protecting forest”

February 2nd, 2008

NDP intent on protecting forest

One of the first orders of business for delegates to the provincial NDP convention this week was reaffirming the party’s stand on protecting Manitoba’s wilderness. Delegates voted Friday night to protect the boreal forest on the East Side of Lake Winnipeg and to continue to work with First Nations toward

Featured image for “Colour-shifting lake given special protection”

January 19th, 2008

Colour-shifting lake given special protection

The province has extended temporary protection for the lands around a unique Manitoba lake as it consults the Mosakahiken Cree Nation and other groups to determine the land’s final fate. Little Limestone Lake is located about 450 kilometres north of Winnipeg, just west of the northern tip of Lake Winnipeg.

Featured image for “On a boreal highway to nowhere”

January 17th, 2008

On a boreal highway to nowhere

It’s too bad that communities like Berens River, Bloodvein and Little Grand Rapids are where they are. If no one lived in the boreal forest on the east side of Lake Winnipeg, we might be in a better position to protect it from development. The east-side forest is an absolute

Featured image for “‘Linear features’ hurt caribou, moose”

January 15th, 2008

‘Linear features’ hurt caribou, moose

Boreal forest researchers refer to both roads and hydro transmission lines as “linear features” but to some forest-dwellers they might simply be called bad news. “The more of these you build, the more negative effects you’ll get in the system,” said Stan Boutin, a professor of biological sciences at the