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Most endangered wilderness 2008 Three wilderness areas win a dark distinction: they are endangered. And with a common threat: logging. Friends of Temagami list Wolf Lake, Spirit Forest abutting Spirit Rock, and Lake Evelyn Lake's northern basin as Temagami's most endangered. The Wolf Lake old-growth forest is a forest reserve slated for merger with the Chiniguchi River Waterway Park. However, mining leases underlie the area and the mining industry wants the reserve designation rescinded. This would clear the way for unfettered mining activity, but would also open it to logging of the ancient old growth.
Wolf Lake old growth defence launched Spirit Forest, which abuts Spirit Rock — a rock monolith that is a traditional sacred site to Temagami First Nation — is slated for logging. A previous attempt to cut it (then known as block 30) was protested by a Temagami elder and environmental groups between 2001 and 2003.
The northern side of the Lady Evelyn Lake's upper basin quietly slipped from roadless wilderness into a 230-square-kilometre clearcut. Logging will continue to expand the cut to the shore of Lady Evelyn Lake and close to Maple Mountain.
This list, the third annual, has morphed from
endangered canoe routes into endangered wilderness. Friends of Temagami's website contains more information on the areas and the threats, as well as action than can be taken to help save them.
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Wolf Lake: ecosystem in peril
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Fishing regs change If you're dropping a line in the water, update yourself on the changes.
Zone 11 fishing regs (PDF)
Backcountry maintenance expands The canoe-route and campsite maintenance program is expanding this year to cover Crown land, the land outside of parks. The program will be built around an expansion of the backcountry park-warden program, which had been limited to the parks. Parks is in the process of hiring four more staff — two interior wardens and two Crown land rangers. Three two-person crews will travel the area, largely by canoe.
The additional wardens and rangers, funded by the district, will also patrol for legal infractions, and camping permits in the parks. The expanded patrol area of Crown land will be bounded by Hwy 11, Lady Evelyn Lake, Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Park, Sturgeon River, and Lake Temagami (Zone 1 in TIP).
The enlarged program was finalized in last year's Temagami's Integrated Plan (TIP).
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MAY 1 First swim - brrr! What could be more exhilarating than a dunk on April 24 — while there is still ice on Temagami Bay. The bravest, and the silliest, are Ursula Kilbridge (left) and Catherine Lowery leaping from the Temagami Canoe Company dock in the town of Temagami. Sarah Flotten joined them after taking the photo.
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