Indigenous leaders point to issues with Timiskaming forest management plan
Indigenous leaders in the Temagami area are hopeful of a new relationship with the Crown when it comes to some forests, but say they re being ignored when it comes to other trees in their territory.
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First Nations say they are being ignored as the province plans the next 10 years for the Timiskaming forest
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Posted: Jan 29, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 29
Timiskaming First Nation is hopeful that it will see some of the economic benefits of logging the Temagami forest which currently generate a lot of profit for a few companies. (Erik White/CBC )
Posted: Jan 28, 2021 12:57 PM ET | Last Updated: January 28
This cougar appeared on a trail cam located northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont., on January 25, 2021. (submitted photo: Adam Massaro)
There has been another cougar photographed just outside of Thunder Bay, Ont.
On Monday evening, an adult cougar showed up on trail camera owned by Adam Massaro.
Massaro said he normally has a lot of lynx on his property, located five kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay in Kaministiquia, but he had never seen a cougar. I was walking down to check my trail cam [Wednesday night], Massaro said, and I noticed the cat tracks in the snow and they looked quite a bit bigger than a lynx. So I sent a picture of them to my fiance as a joke and said maybe there is a cougar around and I checked the camera and yup, that s what it was.
Vladimir Smakhtin has 30 years of experience as a Researcher and Manager in the broad area of water resources with an emphasis on global and regional water scarcity and food security. He holds a PhD from the Russian Academy of Science, and worked at Rhodes University and CSIR in South Africa, and as a research program director at the CGIAR research Center -International Water Management Institute, headquartered in Sri Lanka. His experience spreads across agricultural and environmental water management, low-flow and drought analyses, assessment of basin development and climate change impacts on water availability and access, provision of hydrological information for data-poor regions, water-related disaster risk management. He initiated, managed or contributed to numerous research initiatives in over 20 countries worldwide, including the state programme for mitigating the consequences of Chernobyl Accident in Russia and Ukraine, development of Ecological Reserve methods in South Afric
FPInnovations to host webinar series to increase awareness of bioheat
January 20, 2021
Sustainable wood pellets used in modern bioheat systems. Photo courtesy FPInnovations.
Heating costs in Canada are expensive and generate high amounts of greenhouse gases, especially for those living in rural and remote communities. Many individuals, businesses, and communities across Canada are turning to modern bioheat systems as a solution. Solid woody biofuels produced from sustainably managed Canadian forests can be used efficiently to meet space and hot water heating needs, cut costs, reduce emissions, and offer many other benefits. However, lack of awareness of bioheat technologies and their benefits are a barrier to uptake in Ontario.
Outdoornews
January 6, 2021
As we look at 2020 in the rear-view mirror, it is time to start looking forward and hope for brighter days. No, we have not gotten rid of COVID-19, but distribution of the vaccine is underway and plans moving forward for things like our Great Lakes fisheries is headed in a positive direction.
For Lake Ontario, the Salmon River Fish Hatchery staff completed all the egg collections for Chinook and Coho salmon last fall. The final numbers were 1.6 million Chinook salmon eggs and 860,000 Coho salmon eggs, to be stocked in Lake Ontario tributaries. The Chinook eggs are hatched and will be stocked this spring (translating to roughly 850,000 fingerlings for New York waters, about 550,000 for pens), while the Coho eggs are held in the hatchery for a year and stocked in the spring of 2022 as yearlings. The Coho fall fingerling stocking program will be discontinued moving forward. Previously there were 235,000 fall fingerlings and 90,000 spring yearlings being st