In July 2008, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced a world-leading commitment to conservation-focused land-use planning for Ontario's Great Boreal Forest, including protection for more than 50% of the area. To make this bold commitment a reality, we need a strong Boreal legislation that:

1. Creates a well-resourced joint Planning Board to allow First Nations and the Province to work together and share implementation of planning.

2. Details how Ontario will work in partnership with First Nations to determine the location, use and management of the 50% or more of the region that the Premier has committed to protect as conservation lands.

3. Sets out how community plans will be developed and integrated with regional objectives.

4. Describes how communities will realize long-term benefits from development and their role in management.

5. Provides a clear role for a Science Advisory Committee, including objectives for how it will inform land-use planning.

6. Sets clear rules for the development of roads, corridors and industrial activity outside of protected areas.

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Caribou and the North: A Shared Future. Justina Ray, executive director of Wildlife Conservation Society, and Monte Hummel, conservation advisor to WWF Canada have coauthored a comprehensive and compelling book on the challenges facing caribou across Canada. The book offers an excellent introduction to caribou biology, First Nations' perspectives and possible conservation responses. You can order a copy online directly from the publisher, Dundurn Press or, check your local book store.

  

Freshwater fish in Ontario's boreal: Status, Conservation and Potential Impacts of Development. David R. Browne. WCS Canada Conservation Report No. 2. September 2007.

 

Canada's Boreal Forest: Part of the global climate change solution. A four page introduction to the role of Boreal Forests in tempering climate change. International Boreal Conservation Campaign, 2008.

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Canadian Peatlands and Climate Change. Peatlands are globally important storehouses for carbon and are concentrated in the boreal region. Ducks Unlimited

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Surveying and Monitoring Wolverines in Ontario and Other Lowland, Boreal Forest Habitats:  Recommendations and Protocols.  Erin L. Koen, Justina C. Ray, Jeff Bowman, F. Neil Dawson, Audrey J. Magoun.  NWSI Field Guide FG-06. September 2008

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Magoun, A.J., J.C. Ray, D. S Johnson, P. Valkenburg, N. Dawson and J. Bowman. 2007. Modeling Wolverine Occurrence Using Aerial Surveys of Tracks in Snow. Journal of Wildlife Management. 71(7):2221–2229. Download

Magoun, A.J., K. F. Abraham, J. E. Thompson, J.C. Ray, M.E. Gauthier, G. Brown, G. Woolmer, C. Chenier, and N. Dawson. 2005. Distribution and relative abundance of caribou in the Hudson Bay Lowland of Ontario. Rangifer. Special Issue No. 16, p105-121. Download

CBI/WCS Woodland Caribou Expert Workshop Summary A Workshop organized by WCS Canada and the Canadian Boreal Initiative was held February 28 to March 1, 2006 and attended by caribou experts from across Canada. The goal was to assess the current level of knowledge in regards to what is and what is not caribou habitat, and the parameters or thresholds for maintaining sufficient woodland caribou habitat in the face of large-scale anthropogenic disturbances within current caribou range.  Download

Balancing Needs, Minimizing Conflict: Solutions for Ontario’s controversial century old Mining Act. Ecojustice and Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, 2009.

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Uncertain Future: Woodland Caribou and Canada's Boreal Forest Are governments doing enough to protect woodland caribou? CPAWS and Sierra Club Canada, 2006

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Within the Lac Seul Upland: a geographical protrait of Ecoregion 3S An inventory of many of the ecological and cultural values of the most intact boreal forest area left in the country. CPAWS Wildlands League

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