**Please Note: This is the last report of its kind for 2012. This service will start again on OntarioNewsNorth.com in the spring of 2013. As the 2012 forest fire season officially ended this week on Wednesday October 31st, only one active fire remains in the Northeast Region. Hearst 32 is 100 [Read more]
Ministry of Natural Resources conservation officers laid almost 160 charges and seized illegally harvested animals, including 29 moose, during an enforcement blitz in the northeast. The targeted area extended from the Hudson Bay and James Bay coasts in the north, to the French and Mattawa rivers in [Read more]
Heartbreaking headlines from across the country are highlighting a rash of premature deaths because of unintended incidents involving firearms this fall hunting season. Two deaths in Ontario, one in Alberta and one in Saskatchewan this month are drawing attention to the vital need for training and [Read more]
QUEEN’S PARK, ON – Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Michael Mantha rose in question period today to ask Natural Resources Minister Michael Gravelle about allegations that some MNR employees are acquiring crown lands contrary to Public Lands Act. ONTora has long made allegations of this kind [Read more]
ALGOMA-MANITOULIN, ON – After a busy few months in the legislature, the House rose this week for MPPs to spend some time in their ridings. Given the size of Algoma-Manitoulin, it is difficult for me to be everywhere at once, so I decided to hold constituency clinics in the northern part of [Read more]
From the Northern Ontario Sustainable Communities Partnership and the Northern Ontario Research, Development, Ideas and Knowledge Institute Building Resilient Communities Through Community-Based Forest Management ALGOMA UNIVERSITY, SAULT STE MARIE, ON JANUARY 16-18, 2013 NORDIK Institute and the [Read more]
HERON BAY, ON – Pukaskwa National Park of Canada continues to monitor 3 lightning fires and the Cascade Lake prescribed fire site. The Cascade Lake prescribed fire operation was completed on September 10th using a helicopter equipped with an aerial ignition device. The total area burned was [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON – The 30th annual Northwestern Ontario Regional Conference will be held on Thursday, September 27th & Friday, September 28th at the Victoria Inn in Thunder Bay. The event will bring together municipal leaders, business representatives and economic development practitioners [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – At approximately 12:30pm (noon) yesterday (Tuesday, September 11th) Manitouwadge Fire Department received a call of a bush fire behind Matachewan Road. OntarioNewsNorth.com spoke with Manitouwadge resident Daniel Charron who said that he, and friend Katie Tuomi, were on the [Read more]
The first Local Forest Management Corporation (Nawiinginokiima Forest Management Corporation of NFMC) has been established to manage an area that is proposed to comprise five current management units – Nagagami, Big Pic, Pic River Ojibway, Black River and White River Forests. The seven [Read more]
McGuinty Government and Marten Falls First Nation Support Responsible Development in the Ring of Fire Ontario and Marten Falls First Nation have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to realize the benefits of responsible mineral development in the Ring of Fire. The memorandum of [Read more]
The hard work of many people was recognized on Friday in Terrace Bay with a Grand Celebration of the $250 million investment by the Aditya Birla Group and creation of AV Terrace Bay Inc. at the local pulp mill. Many politicians from throughout the region were on hand and over 300 people were in [Read more]
McGuinty Government Removes Restricted Fire Zone The Restricted Fire Zone order will be lifted in the Northeastern Ontario areas of Espanola, Sudbury, Manitoulin Island, North Bay and Temagami on August 3 at 6:00 p.m. The Restricted Fire Zone was declared on July 13, 2012 due to extreme fire hazard [Read more]
From July 16th to 20th, 2012, Horwood Lake Lodge hosted the annual Kids and Wardens Fishing Adventure. This marks the sixth straight year the Ontario Conservation Officers Association (OCOA) has worked with the lodge to provide a trip of a lifetime to members of a Boys and Girls Club from a large [Read more]
McGuinty Government Growing Forestry Sector, Creating Jobs Ontario has entered into an historic partnership with Obishikokaang Resources, a forest management corporation owned by Lac Seul First Nation, by issuing an enhanced Forest Resource Licence that will create jobs and boost the local economy. [Read more]
