Hiya, folks!
Since you heard from me last I've been working on a big campaign to help save Temagami's Solace Wildlands.
The Friends of Temagami are opposing construction of the Turner Road through the Solace Wildlands. The Wildlands are a roadless, virgin forest corridor of canoe routes linking the Pinetorch Conservation Reserve, Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park, Solace Provincial Park and the Sturgeon River Provincial Park.
The Solace Wildlands is a Crown Land area of roughly 100 square kilometres right smack in the middle of Temagami's other protected areas. Gervais Forest Products Ltd. under the direction of Vermilion Forest Management have already begun construction of a 25 kilometre-long, kilometre-wide primary logging road corridor beginning from Twinkle Lake Road. This road is a last resort for VFM after proposed bridges over the Sturgeon River were denied three times. There are no allocated cut blocks in the Solace Wildlands area and the Forest Management Planning process for 2020-2030 is only just beginning.
The MNRF approved the Turner Road in 2009 for the 2010-2020 FMP. Construction only began a month ago. Again, there are NO ALLOCATED CUT BLOCKS in the Solace Wildlands.
Please consider signing and sharing our petition.
The petition can be found at
http://www.bit.ly/solacepetitionFor more information, please go to
http://www.savesolace.comThank you!