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After 7 days of reasonably good weather and 100 kilometers of paddling, Manitoba Executive Director Ron Thiessen has returned from an expedition along the Manigotagan River. Ron’s trip was in support of the Manitoba Eco-Network’s Manigotagan River Web-Based GIS Project. It’s all part of CPAWS efforts to put conservation and

Re: Province providing funds for east side land use plans (Aug. 20) I was delighted to read the Manitoba government is starting to make good on its long overdue commitment to support First Nations on the east side of Lake Winnipeg in producing community lands management plans. Half a million

In the wake of cross-country canoeist Jay Morrison’s visit to Manitoba, CPAWS Manitoba Executive Director Ron Thiessen is canoeing the Manigotagan River on the east side of Lake Winnipeg, in support of the Manitoba Eco-Network’s GIS Mapping Center Project. The Mapping Project’s current mission is to produce a canoe map

After paddling solo from the Atlantic (over 3,000 km since April), CPAWS Board member Jay Morrison stopped in Winnipeg this week to voice his support for new protected areas on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. Please join CPAWS and Jay by sending a letter to the Manitoba government. Let’s

That’s a lot of paddling. An Ottawa man arrived in Lac du Bonnet along the Winnipeg Riveron Sunday, completing a 3,100-kilometre canoe trip that took nearlyfour months. Canoeist extraordinaire Jay Morrison paddles up behind the Manitoba Legislature yesterday.  MARCEL CRETAIN Sun. Jay Morrison, 57, began his journey in the ocean

JAY Morrison paddled 3,000 kilometres through heat and storms to deliver a paddle to the Manitoba legislature yesterday. The 57-year-old member of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAW) put his canoe-kayak hybrid in the Gulf Of St. Lawrence on April 9, and arrived in Winnipeg—somewhat tanned—yesterday to remind the

Winnipeg—After paddling 3,000 km since starting in April in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, solo canoeist Jay Morrison was greeted in Winnipeg today by Manitoba Conservation Minister Stan Struthers and Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) Manitoba chapter director Ron Thiessen at the banks of the Assiniboine River south

After much urging by CPAWS, and a stream of letters from CPAWS supporters, the Manitoba government has now provided an avenue for citizens and experts to provide comments and make improvements to the provincial Caribou Recovery Strategy.Thank you for your support! Our woodland caribou’s future depends on a Recovery Strategy

In June 2006, after a targeted campaign by CPAWS and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Manitoba’s threatened woodland caribou was listed under the Manitoba Endangered Species Act. We are delighted by this announcement and will be working to ensure that the habitat protection mandated in the Manitoba Endangered Species Act

In April 2005, Ron Thiessen, now CPAWS Manitoba Executive Director, gave Conservation Minister Stan Struthers a bottle of Caribou Wine together with a request that it only be opened to celebrate when the province provides legal protection for woodland caribou.In June 2006, after a targeted campaign by CPAWS and the

After years of delays, the Manitoba government has released its Conservation and Recovery Strategy for Boreal Woodland Caribou. The Strategy is a weaker, watered-down version of its predecessor that fails to embrace what is truly needed to create a healthy future for threatened woodland caribou – protecting large, intact areas

Manitoba’s woodland caribou populations are being listed as threatenedunder the Endangered Species Act to strengthen steps already taken bythe province to protect herds, Conservation Minister Stan Struthersannounced today as part of Environment Week activities. “Boreal woodland caribou populations appear to be maintaining themselvesin Manitoba but we want to ensure they