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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 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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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January 11th, 2008

Keep east side pristine

IN 2007, the Manitoba government made a decision to alter the route for a power line east of Lake Winnipeg, which would have run through the largest remaining intact area in the boreal forest of southern Canada. The decision was reportedly made after consultation with First Nations in the area,

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November 19th, 2007

Manitoba Caribou Get a Break

Conservation Minister Stan Struthers congratulated the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society and Tembec forestry corporation for negotiating a 50-year halt to logging in woodland caribou habitats on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. “This government wholeheartedly supports this move to protect the important caribou habitat which is critical to maintaining

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November 12th, 2007

Protecting Colour-changing Lake – Little Limestone

The Manitoba government is holding an open house tomorrow (November 13th) to seek public input about extending protection of Little Limestone Lake and surrounding lands. The area is presently protected from all industrial developments until January 19, 2008 while consultations continue about the future of what the Canadian Parks and

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October 15th, 2007

Pact protects woodland caribou habitat

SOME habitat used by a herd of woodland caribou has been protected from logging for at least 50 years thanks to a recent agreement between an environmental group and logging giant Tembec. Tembec agreed with the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society that it will not log a portion of its

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October 11th, 2007

WOODLAND CARIBOU HABITAT TO BE PROTECTED

Conservation Minister Stan Struthers today congratulated the Canadian Parksand Wilderness Society and Tembec forestry corporation for negotiating a50-year halt to logging in woodland caribou habitats on the east side ofLake Winnipeg. “This government wholeheartedly supports this move to protect the importantcaribou habitat which is critical to maintaining populations of thisthreatened

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October 10th, 2007

Threatened caribou habitat protected

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) and forestry corporation Tembec have negotiated a minimum 50-year halt on logging in an area used extensively by woodland caribou on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. Habitat protection is key to maintaining populations of this threatened species, as they are extremely sensitive

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October 8th, 2007

Look at us, world

IT has been described as the northern lungs of our planet. It is the largest source of fresh water in the world. One of the biggest, untouched swaths of it sits right in our own backyard. “It” is the boreal forest, 15 million square kilometres of trees, lakes, rivers and