Renewed Effort To Save Temagami's Solace Wildlands

A recent video from Camper Christina sparked off a renewed interest in the local canoeing community lately to save Temagami’s Solace Wildlands from logging. Temagami has long been a target for forestry and recently the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has given Vermilion Forest Management (VFM) license to build a 25 kilometre-long primary logging road corridor straight through the heart of the Solace Wildlands.

• The Solace Wildlands contains the last roadless forest tract in all of Temagami and the headwaters for the lakes within Solace Provincial Park and the Sturgeon River Provincial Park

• The Wildlands have never been logged, and likely contain rare old-growth forest

• The Turner Road would destroy intact forest, erase campsites and portages, and eliminate well-used link routes between provincial parks in Temagami

• The road would cross several portages and campsites and include a bridge right above Talking Falls, a remote, well-established campsite that canoeists spend days travelling to reach

• VFM has not included these campsites and portages as Areas of Concern (AOC) on their maps. There has been no ground-truthing of the proposed route and no environmental impact study

The Friends of Temagami have broken down the main arguments and help explain the situation in a very clear fashion.

There is a Change.org petition that is nearing 25,000 signatures that you can add your own voice to in the effort to keep the old growth forest in-tact.