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Whiteshell Park Borders Expanded 19 December 14

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Whiteshell Provincial Park will be expanded by almost 3,000 hectares with more space inside the park to be protected from mining and development. This addition of land and water will expand the park's northwest boundary to the Whitemouth Bog Ecological Reserve and Whitemouth Bog Wildlife Management Area. Protecting the Whitemouth Bog wetlands will help clean water before it flows into Lake Winnipeg. Before this expansion the park was 272, 900 hectares.

In addition to the increased area, the province is increasing the protected areas within the park by 20,375 hectares - roughly six times the size of Birds Hill Provincial Park. This will bring the percentage of protected area within the park up to 44 from 35 percent.

Unfortunately the two regulations required under the Parks Act, and the Mines Act, were not available as of Friday, December 19, 2014.

“We will monitor this announcement to see wether newer land use zones are regulations are put in place,” commented Gaile Whelan-Enns, Manitoba Wildlands Director.

View December 16, 2014 Wilderness Committee article
View December 16, 2014 Winnipeg Free Press article
View December 16, 2014 CBC News article
View December 16, 2014 Metro article
View December 16, 2014 Ducks Unlimited Canada article
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