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Land Designation
Provincial Park
Landscape Description
Nopiming Provincial Park is classified as a Natural Park in
Manitoba, meaning that it accommodates diverse recreational
opportunities and resource uses while preserving natural areas. The
park is 142,910 hectares in size, and is characterized by the rock
outcrops, lakes, and rivers of the Canadian Shield.
Outstanding Features
Manitoba’s Parks and Natural Areas
Branch increased the amount of protected land within Nopiming
Provincial Park by expanding a portion of Backcountry Land Use
Category (LUC) in the northwest extension of the park. A 186
hectare portion of Recreational Development LUC has been changed to
Backcountry LUC. The Backcountry LUC protects this area from
logging, mining, hydro, oil and gas development, and other
activities that significantly and adversely affect habitat. The LUC
change does not affect the present uses of the area including
hunting and trapping activities, and will enhance nature-oriented
recreational experiences in the park.
The expansion of this Backcountry
LUC increases the protection of a rare enduring feature that occurs
in this area. Enduring features are combinations of soil type and
surficial geology that are used to represent the biodiversity within
Manitoba’s natural regions. This feature was created by river
deposits on Canadian Shield bedrock at the time of the glaciers,
resulting in an elevated landform dominated by jack pine trees with
scattered marshes and black spruce/tamarack bogs, surrounded on
three sides by Manigotagan Lake and Happy Lake.
Enduring
features are used to represent the biodiversity within Manitoba’s 18
natural regions. All biological organisms share a connection to the
landscapes in which they are found. By protecting the enduring
features of an area, the unique animal and plant communities found
within that feature are also protected. Increasing the
amount of this enduring feature in protected status contributes to
Manitoba’s goal of creating a network of protected areas that
represents the biodiversity of each natural region. |
