Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development advises that conservation officers are continuing enforcement to protect Manitoba s natural resources, including compliance checks for winter fisheries, and to address illegal hunting.
Councillors push for Curragh Plains to finally get protective status
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Kildare County Council has been strongly urged to have the Curragh Plains protected in new legislation.
Cllr Tracey O’Dwyer called on the council to write to the Minister of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage asking him to make an order designating the Curragh Plains as a Natural Heritage Area under Section 16 (1) of the Wildlife Amendment Act, (2000).
At January s Kildare-Newbridge Municipal District Meeting, she also called on the Minister to begin the formal process of advancing its current designation from a Proposed Natural Heritage Area (p NHA) to a Natural Heritage Area (NHA).
Brandon Sun By: Jerry Daniels
Editor’s note: The column written by Jerry Daniels was first published in the Winnipeg Free Press on Nov. 26, 2020. We are reprinting it on this page together with a response to Chief Daniels’ column from the managing director of the Manitoba Wildlife Federation, Carly Deacon.
Editor’s note: The column written by Jerry Daniels was first published in the Winnipeg Free Press on Nov. 26, 2020. We are reprinting it on this page together with a response to Chief Daniels’ column from the managing director of the Manitoba Wildlife Federation, Carly Deacon.
I am dismayed that we are still arguing about the inherent rights of First Nation people to harvest from our lands and waters. Let me be clear, we have never given up our inherent right to hunt and fish.