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Poplar/Nanowin Rivers Park Reserve Renewal
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Designation
Park Reserve
Landscape Description
The 770,000 hectare Poplar/Nanowin Rivers Park
Reserve is located in the Lac Seul Upland District
of Manitoba’s Precambrian Boreal Forest Natural
Region. The
area includes several local watersheds, and its
natural features range from the granite outcrop
and Jack Pine towards the Manitoba-Ontario border
to the marshes and peat lands adjacent to
Lake Winnipeg
.
Outstanding Features
The park reserve is home to species ranging
from the Woodland Caribou and Shortjaw Cisco to
Bald Eagle, Sweet Flag and the Balsam Poplar that
gave the area’s main river its name. The
park reserve also contains an archaeological
record dating back approximately 8,000 years. Composed
of the main portion of the Poplar River First
Nation’s traditional area of use, sites of
cultural importance to this community have been
identified in several areas of the park reserve,
including Weaver and
Wrong
Lakes
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It
was Poplar River First Nation that first suggested
the area be considered a Park Reserve with a
Wilderness Land Use Category that protects the
area from logging, mining and hydroelectric
development, thereby contributing to
Manitoba
’s network of
protected areas. Currently,
the community is undertaking a land use inventory
and land management study for the park reserve
area. Additional
time to develop and complete this project has been
requested by Poplar River First Nation. Identification
of traditional use areas, community approaches to
land management issues and ideas respecting type
and degree of community management of the area are
among the expected products of this initiative.
After
undertaking a public review of the future of the
Poplar/Nanowin Park Reserve, Manitoba Conservation
is extending this park reserve designation for a
further five years in order that the results of
the community’s work can be included in further
consultations on the long-term future of this
area.
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