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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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    October 25th, 2009

    Meditation Lake Camp Proposal Abandoned

    After initiatives involving the Wilderness Committee, CPAWS, and concerned citizens, the province and Tim Hortons have abandoned plans to develop a kid’s camp on Meditation Lake in Whiteshell provincial park.  CPAWS opposed the location of the proposed Tim Horton’s kid’s camp for the following reasons: unnecessarily increasing access to an
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    October 25th, 2009

    Pleading for climate control

    Colin Crolly hopes, for the sake of his two young children, that governments and people around the world can be persuaded to do a 180 to get to 350 on climate change. “My generation has messed things up,” Crolly said Saturday while listening to speakers at a climate-change rally on
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    October 25th, 2009

    Meditation Lake kids camp scuttled

    A plan by Tim Hortons to open a youth camp in the Whiteshell has been scuttled by the province because of water concerns. Conservation Minister Stan Struthers and the Tim Horton Children’s Foundation said Thursday they plan to look for another site in the Whiteshell for the year-round camp for
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    October 20th, 2009

    Is green business good business?

    Number crunching and tree hugging … two images not normally associated with each other. But a Ryerson professor’s research using accounting methods appears to have proven that new green technology enhances profit margins, which may affect everything from how investors value companies to carbon trading. Dr. Vanessa Magness’s research is
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    October 20th, 2009

    Gary Doer asks Manitobans to Keep East Side Dream Alive

    At a farewell dinner for Gary Doer on October 17th, the outgoing Premier stated “Do not ever give up on the dream of protecting the east side of Lake Winnipeg.” – CBC news Other comments from Gary Doer about the east side of Lake Winnipeg during his last month of
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    October 19th, 2009

    Pembina Valley park gets facelift

    The Pembina Valley Provincial Park has received a considerable facelift to make it more accessible and interesting to visitors. Opened in 2001, the 180-hectare natural park now has a 24-metre, single-span steel bridge to provide access to the trail system and a new nine-metre observation tower. The park, located in
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    October 19th, 2009

    Reflecting on the deer departed

    When it comes to hunting deer, you could say the weapon for 25 per cent of Manitobans is the front grille of their vehicle. That’s because while hunters armed with rifles, bows and muzzle-loaders bagged an estimated 33,000 deer during the 2007/08 hunting season, about another 10,000 were killed after
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    October 18th, 2009

    First Nations get funds to protect species at risk

    THE Harper government made more money available for Manitoba First Nations communities to protect species at risk. The $281,000 funding was announced Thursday in Winnipeg by Charleswood MP Steven Fletcher, minister of state for democratic reform. The money is part of a larger $532,500 commitment for 12 projects in Western
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    October 18th, 2009

    Winnipegger wins environmental award

    A Winnipeg forest activist has won North America’s top environmental prize for youth. Robin Bryan, 21, is among the six recipients of the 2009 Brower Youth Award for his effort to protect nearly one million acres of boreal forest in Manitoba from industrial logging. A student at the University of
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    October 14th, 2009

    Trust fund backs up UN heritage bid

    The Doer government put its money where its mouth is Tuesday with a $10-million contribution to a new trust fund aimed at winning a United Nation’s world heritage status for a 40,000-square-kilometre area of forest on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. The fund will be managed by the Winnipeg
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    October 14th, 2009

    Doer announces $10-M UNESCO trust fund

    WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is contributing $10 million towards a new trust fund in support of winning a UNESCO World Heritage status for the east side of Lake Winnipeg. Premier Gary Doer said the fund, to be managed by the Winnipeg Foundation, will support four east side First Nations
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    October 14th, 2009

    $10 million trust fund set up for world heritage site

    The proposal to establish a UNESCO world heritage site on the east side of Lake Winnipeg received a big financial boost today, with the Manitoba government kick-starting a new trust fund with $10 million. The fund will be administered by the Winnipeg Foundation and is designed to pay for staff
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