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Fall 2006 Nopiming Park Logging Expedition
     
  In the fall of 2006 we went on an expedition into Nopiming Provincial Park to briefly examine some of the logging roads. Tembec has been clearcut logging in one of the last intact stands of old-growth forest in Nopiming. Kilometer after kilometer of road has been cut through the old stands of trees, connecting clearcut after clearcut. The patchy re-growth in these images is about four years old. It will be decades before this forest recovers, if it ever will. This is not what a provincial park should look like.

The wilderness pictures below are the results of expeditions to document our wild lands. The images are the property of the photographer and the Wilderness Committee. These nature photographs can be made available for projects that help protect our wild lands, such as school programs on conservation. Please contact us if you wish to use these pictures.

 
  All pictures by Eric Reder  
     
Nopiming Provincial Park clearcut  logging
Nopiming Provincial Park clearcut logging.  
     
 
This is an old mill site. The slabs were cut off the logs here, and left behind. The sawdust pile is spread over a huge area, and so deep it won't naturally break down and trees won't grow here. Other sites like this in Nopiming Park have not regenerated after several decades. Leaving a site like this is illegal, yet Tembec is being allowed to do this by Manitoba Conservation.
Nopiming Provincial Park clearcut  logging
     
Nopiming Provincial Park clearcut  logging
Nopiming Provincial Park clearcut logging.  
     
     
     
 

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