UPDATE – WAWA FIRE #18 WAWA, ON – Wawa fire #18 is located approximately 30 km east of the town of Hawk Junction and 8 km east of the Potholes Conservation Reserve. The fire was reported Thursday, May 27, and has grown to an estimated 2300 hectares approximately 40 kilometres east of Wawa near [Read more]
Photos & Videos of Wawa Fire 8 available at www.OntarioNewsNoroth.com/?p=121717 WAWA MNR CO-OPERATORS FOREST FIRE INFORMATION Valid: June 1st, 2010 From Wawa MNR, for June 1st, 2010 COMMENTS: Lightning was associated with scattered rain amounts across the sector. Please check the fuel [Read more]
Superior East OPP Detachment IMPAIRED DRIVER DUBREUILVILLE (WAWA, ON.) – On May 29, 2010 at 10:46 pm Superior East OPP at Wawa received a report from Ministry of Natural Resources Conservation Officers at Parc Industriel Road, Huotari Township northeast of Dubreuilville, advising of a possible [Read more]
Fines And Probation For Illegal Moose Hunting Two hunters have been fined a total of $5,500 and one received two years of probation for illegal moose hunting. Terry Huckell of Dryden pleaded guilty to illegally hunting a cow and a bull moose, making a false statement to a conservation officer and [Read more]
Hornepayne Outfitter Fined For Unlawfully Providing Bear Hunting Services May 27, 2010 An Ontario company was fined $1,200 for unlawfully providing bear hunting services. The company, 1584864 Ontario Limited, was fined for providing black bear hunting services without a licence. Additional [Read more]
Pair Fined For Hunting At Night May 25, 2010 Two men have been fined a total of $2,900 for various offences related to illegally hunting at night. Yves Boissonneault and Donald Boulianne of Moonbeam, Ontario, plead guilty to unlawfully hunting at night. Each received a $1,200 fine and a four-year [Read more]
Dredging Shorelands on Lake Simcoe Proves Costly A Thorah Island landowner and a marine contractor pled guilty to dredging a boat slip on the shorelands of Lake Simcoe. Court heard that on October 22, 2008, conservation officers observed a boat slip that was excavated without the authority of a [Read more]
Local Angler Wants Boaters to ‘Get it On” THUNDER BAY – This week, professional angler, Gord Ellis, urged boaters to “Get it On!” in a new campaign aimed at encouraging people to wear a personal flotation device (PFD), also known as a life jacket. Ellis is the logical choice to promote [Read more]
Outdoor Burning Restricted In Areas of Northeastern Ontario May 20, 2010 McGuinty Government Implements Restricted Fire Zone A Restricted Fire Zone has been declared in Northeastern Ontario north of the French River to reduce the risk of human-caused wildfires. Effective 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, [Read more]
Irresponsible & Reckless Feeding of Bears, Compromises Children’s Safety Two large bags of sunflower seeds mixed with molasses and dumped fifty feet from the Nursery School couldn’t have been more reckless and irresponsible by the individual(s) who placed this “meal” for the bears in [Read more]
Reckless dumping of garbage endangers Manitouwadge residents MANITOUWADGE, ON – Friday May 14th, 2010 The photo below was taken of the Public Works employees near the bear dumpster located across from the soccer field to highlight the reckless dumping of waste, debris and hazardous [Read more]
Manitouwadge Mayor Lobbies for Attack Base by Karina Hunter Pictured from left are Councillor George Bodak, Town Clerk Cecile Kerster, and Manitouwadge Mayor John MacEachern, with Minister of Northern Development Mines and Forests the Hon. Michael Gravelle. MacEachern spoke with the Minister [Read more]
Scroll past video for details. UNOFFICIAL MANITOUWADGE,ON – April 24th, 2010 Ontario Provincial Police are said to have been the first on scene at a bush fire on the ‘Jack Watson Logging Channel’ (old rail bed) on the outskirts of the township within view from Hwy 614 Saturday. [Read more]
Suckerfishing – big family fun! by Karina Hunter “Sorry I’m late Mom, the suckerfish are running and my friends and I were at the creek”, my son, soaked up to his armpits, had arrived from school about 30 minutes late and was eager to get back to the little creek running through [Read more]
MNR Employees brave the cold for local Food Bank by Karina Hunter In spite of below zero temperatures yesterday, staff and their families, from the Manitouwadge detachment of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), accompanied by ministry mascot Smokey the Bear, set up a tent [Read more]
