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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 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 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

    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 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
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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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