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THREE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD TEMAGAMI RED PINES AT RISK
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For longtime Temagami canoe-tripper Brian Back, the prospect of a new provincial park encompassing Wolf Lake, a Windex-clear lake surrounded by a stark quartzite shoreline and a forest of old- growth red pine, was “almost a no-brainer.” Wolf Lake is the scenic highlight of a canoe route weaving in
and out of Chiniguchi Waterway Provincial Park, a 9,368-hectare protected area of lakes and small rivers east of Sudbury, Ontario. A Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) report in 1990 concluded that Wolf Lake “may be the largest remaining contiguous, old- growth red pine-dominated forest in North America,” with trees up to 300 years old. Summer camps have flocked to the area for decades, along with throngs of recreational canoeists looking for an easy escape. Despite all this, Wolf Lake isn’t protected. Tings looked promis-
ing in 1999 when Ontario’s Living Legacy, a government attempt to complete the province’s network of protected areas, established the Chiniguchi park and pegged Wolf Lake as a Forest Reserve— essentially a park-in-waiting designation that allows mining but outlaws forestry.—Continued on page 16
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PINING FOR PROTECTION. PHOTO: CONOR MIHELL
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