• Attend
a Rally to Protect our Parks and our Future!
Wednesday, February 27
Healthy provincial parks
create a healthy environment and a better future
for all Manitobans. Unfortunately, industrial activity
such as clearcut logging is permanently degrading
our parks. In the coming months forestry licenses
that were granted to corporations to clearcut log
these cherished areas are expiring. The government
is currently negotiating new licenses that could
allow clearcut logging in our parks for the next
20 years. Overwhelmingly, Manitobans have stated
that they want industrial activity out of our parks.
Our beloved parks must be removed from all future
forestry licenses.
Attend a Rally to Protect
our Parks and our Future!
On Wednesday,
February 27 from 12–2
p.m. on the Manitoba
Legislative grounds, please gather with other conservationists
to let the government know we want our parks protected
and we don't want forestry licenses to include our
provincial parks.
If you're free at lunch hour,
we'd love to stand by your side to help get your
public lands protected. Even if attending rallies
isn't your thing, come down to listen to our guest
speakers and learn about how they have had their
lives impacted by the degrading industrial activity
occurring in our parklands. Tell your co-workers,
your fellow students, your family, the people you
go camping with, your fishing buddies, your bird
watching group, and the people who have a cottage
next to you at the lake. If you are not an outdoors-type
person, come down and hear how our parklands work
to provide us all with clean air and water, the
essentials of our life on earth. Everyone who is
thinking about what kind of future we are building
in Manitoba should make an effort to attend this
rally. Bring a mug for free hot chocolate.
Now is the time to let your voice
in the wilderness be heard! |
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• Read
the Winnipeg Free Press article from February 11 on
logging in provincial parks
Click
here to read the article about the devastation
currently happening in our provincial parks. |
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• Park
Logging lectures at the U of W, this Wednesday,
February 13
The sordid history of
corporate logging interests and our provincial parks
creates an unbelievable tale, and this is the focus
of lectures being hosted by the Wilderness Committee
and the University of Winnipeg environmental student
group, Eco-MAFIA. These talks are sure to be disturbing,
but they will also empower all those who attend
with the information and direction needed to preserve
Manitoba's invaluable wild lands. The first talk
will be held at the University of Winnipeg on Wednesday,
February 13th from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Room 1L11,
with an expanded version of this talk being held
that evening from 7:00 to 9 p.m. in Eckhardt-Gramatté
Hall. Bring your friends, family, and colleagues.
All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Admission
is free.
12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Room
1L11,
which is in Lockhart Building, the southwest corner
of Ellice Avenue and Balmoral Street.
7:00 to 9 p.m. in Eckhardt-Gramatté
Hall,
which is in the Centennial Building, just south
of the Lockhart Building.
Maps of the University of
Manitoba, with building and parking locations, can
be found at this web address: www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/maps
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• A new
Wilderness Committee educational report released:
Western Canada’s Provincial Parks: How does
Manitoba measure up?
Click
here to read the educational report. |
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• Read
an exceptional Free Press article on how Manitoba
Provincial Parks measure up to others in Canada.
Click
here to read the November 26, 2007 Winnipeg Free
Press article |
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• Wilderness
Committee refused answers at Tembec's public consultation
Open House
In October of 2007 Tembec
held an Open House in Winnipeg, a required public
consultation component for their Forest Management
License. The Wilderness Committee attended the event
in order to ask Tembec questions about their plan.
What we discovered was that Tembec refused to answer
any questions for us.
Click
here read about the analysis of Tembec's 20-year
clearcut logging plan for Nopiming Provincial Park
and Forest Management License 1 |
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• A new
Wilderness Committee educational report released:
Western Canada’s Provincial Parks: How does
Manitoba measure up?
Click
here to read the educational report. |
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• Read
an exceptional Free Press article on how Manitoba
Provincial Parks measure up to others in Canada.
Click
here to read the November 26, 2007 Winnipeg Free
Press article |
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• Wilderness
Committee refused answers at Tembec's public consultation
Open House
Click
here read about the analysis of Tembec's 20-year
clearcut logging plan for Nopiming Provincial Park
and Forest Management License 1 |
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• Read The Metro article
on clearcut logging in Manitoba's provincial parks
Click
here to read the August 16, 2007 The Metro article.
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• Read the Free Press
article on the release of the Wilderness Committee’s
Whiteshell provincial park clearcut logging map
Click
here to read the June 16, 2007 Winnipeg Free Press
article. |
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• Wilderness
Committee releases map of logging clearcuts and forest
cover in Whiteshell Provincial Park.
Click
here to see the map. |
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• Read the Lac du Bonnet
Leader article about the Clearcut Provincial Park
action in Nopiming Provincial Park.
Click
here to read the article.
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• Read the Winnipeg
Free Press article on the launch of the Wilderness
Committee’s "Welcome to Clearcut Provincial
Park" direct action campaign
Click
here to read the article.
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• "Welcome to
Clearcut Provincial Park" direct action campaign
Through the summer at
entrances to provincial parks, the Wilderness
Committee will have information booths set up, explaining
the devastation being allowed
in our provincial parks, and what the citizens of
Manitoba can do to end the destruction.
Click
here to read more. |
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• Read the Letter to
the Editor written in response to the Leader article
on Tembec's Lac du Bonnet Open House
Click
here to read the March 2, 2007 letter written
to the Lac du Bonnet Leader. |
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• Tembec Divisional
Forester in Washington Post article, boasting that
Tembec is protecting forest areas, lowering emissions
from Pine Falls plant.
The Washington Post charges
hundreds of dollars even for a non-profit organization
to reprint their articles. You can find the February
22, 2007 article entitled “In Far North, Peril
and Promise” online at washingtonpost.com.
Click
here to read the Letter to the Editor in response
to this article. |
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• Read the Eco-Journal
article on Forest Stewardship Council, Tembec, and
Nopiming Provincial Park
Click
here to read the February 2007 Manitoba Eco-Journal
article. |
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• Logging
Corporation Tembec pressures government to abandon
Wildlife Guidelines, threatening wildlife in Nopiming
Park
Wilderness Committee News
Release—February 15, 2007
Click
here to read the news release |
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• Read
the Leader article on the Tembec Open House in Lac
du Bonnet
Click
here to read the January 26, 2007 Lac du Bonnet
Leader article.
Click
here to read the Letter to the Editor written
in response, published on March 2
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• Read
the Free Press article on the Wilderness Committee
/ Tembec Open House
Click
here to read the January 23, 2007 Winnipeg Free
Press article.
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• Wilderness
Committee confronts Tembec on logging provincial
parks at Tembec's Open House
Click
here to read more about the event. |
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| • Wilderness Committee
Manitoba on UMFM radio show on January 22, asking
for protection of our provincial parks. |
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