> From: Ontario Environment Network <oen@xxxxxx> > Date: February 2, 2005 10:25:13 AM EST > To: (Recipient list suppressed) > Subject: [wildlands-l] Wildlands News - A Trails Strategy For Ontario > > > The Ministry of Tourism and Recreation is developing a provincial > trails strategy. There are many issues under consideration including > environmental impacts. In December 2004 and January 2005, the > province held stakeholder meetings on specific issues ranging from > environmental impacts to economic sustainability of trails. > > The next phase of consultation will be through regional meetings. > However, these meetings are by invitation only. > > As a member of the Minister's Advisory Committee on Trails , we are > able to ask for an invitation for your organization to these meetings. > We would like to encourage strong regional support for keeping > motorized trails out of Protected Areas and minimizing the impacts of > trails on the rest of the landscape. > > If your local environmental/field naturalist club would like to attend > the Regional Consultations, and have not been invited to date, please > contact Evan Ferrari at the Wildlands League (416-971-9453 xt 43 > <mailto:ferrari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>ferrari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ) and > he will attempt to get an invitation for your organization. > > Dates of Regional Consultations: > > February 15, 2005 Chatham > February 16, 2005 Woodstock > February 17, 2005 St. Catharines > February 21, 2005 Hanover > February 22, 2005 Barrie > February 23, 2005 Peterborough > February 24, 2005 Kingston > February 25, 2005 Ottawa > February 28, 2005 Thunder Bay > > March 1, 2005 Sault Ste Marie > March 2, 2005 Timmins > March 3, 2005 Sudbury > March 7, 2005 Toronto > > <http://www.wildlandsleague.org/giving.html>Join us - Protect the > Spaces You Love > > ********************************************************** > The Wildlands League is a chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness > Society. We have been working to protect wild spaces and species in > Ontario for more than 35 years. Subscribers to this list receive > information about urgent conservation issues in Ontario. To > subscribe/unsubscribe to this list or for more information, email > <mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > *********************************** Check our webpage for more information: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/webpage?webpage_id=cseblist