Goose Islands Park Reserve (145 hectares (ha)), Grand Island Park Reserve (1,035 ha), and Pemmican Island Parks Reserve (22 ha) are all located in Lake Winnipegosis approximately 175 kilometres north of Dauphin, Manitoba.

Kinwow Bay Park Reserve (8,400 ha), Sturgeon Bay Park Reserve (14,490 ha), and Pelican Islands Park Reserve (130 ha) are located along the western shore of Lake Winnipeg approximately 225 kilometres north of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Manitoba's Parks Act, s. 9(1) requires public consultation for park reserves, and park reserve renewals. Comments must be received no later than November 21, 2011.

Park reserve designation, which established the protected areas, provides interim protection while the decision for permanent designation and protection is made.

If park reserve designation is renewed until 2016, this will be the third time that interim protection has been extended for an additional five-years for these six Park Reserves, which were initially established under Manitoba's Parks Act June 1, 2001.

"More than 15 days should have been given to solicit public comments," said Manitoba Wildlands Director Gaile Whelan Enns. "After more than a decade of interim protection, and plans to increase interim protection to 15 years, Manitobans should be rightly asking if and when these protected areas will be permanent?"