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From: Sylvie Fontaine
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From: MIN Feedback (MNRF) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 11:14 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Gravelle_Michael-MPP-CO; [email protected] Subject: Message from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
MNR5805MC-2015-1002
July 14, 2015
Mayor Renald Beaulieu, Greenstone Chief Fred Sackaney, Constance Lake First Nation Mayor Roger Sigouin, Hearst Mayor Michel Briere, Mattice-Val Cote Mayor Don Nolet, Opasatika Mayor Johanne Baril, Val Rita-Harty Mayor AI Spacek, Kapuskasing Mayor Gilles Audet, Moonbeam Mayor Madeleine Tremblay, Fauquier-Strickland Mayor Michel Arsenault, Smooth Rock Falls
1 Mayor Peter Politis, Cochrane Mayor Steve Black, Timmins Mayor Michael Shea, Iroquois Falls George Graham, Hearst Forest Management Inc. Roger Wesley, Hearst Forest Management Inc. Guy Bourgouin, President, USW Local 1-2010 Mike Doody, Chairperson, NEOMA c/o Sylvie Fontaine,Executive Director Hearst Economic Development Corporation sfontain e@hearst. ca
Dear Mesdames and Messrs.:
Thank you for your letters regarding the location of the southern boundaries of caribou ranges in northeastern Ontario. It was a pleasure to meet on May 6, 2015, to discuss this issue.
Caribou ranges in Ontario were delineated to include areas where caribou currently exist, as well as areas nearby where we expect caribou to return as habitat becomes suitable. This is consistent with how other jurisdictions have defined ranges across Canada. We have listened to northern communities and , based on caribou ecology, have adjusted the southern boundary of caribou ranges near Hearst to exclude development. The boundary is now several kilometres north of Highway 11 from east of Kapuskasing to west of Hearst.
Future range boundary evaluations will consider new information obtained through population surveys, assessments of population health, animal movement patterns and seasonal habitat selection along with changes to habitat that rnay result from climate change.
The collaring data represents movement pattems within the area where the animals we re collared. These animals do not represent the entire population or distribution of caribou within Ontario or within a range.
Ministry staff continue to support local forest management planning teams as they balance goals to create solutions that support the conservation of biodiversity, caribou and the forestry sector.
Ontario is committed to meeting the needs of the forestry industry and will work with all stakeholders to ensure that forestry remains a successful and sustainable industry in northern Ontario.
Thank you again fo r writing .
Sincerely,
Bill Mauro Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry c: Premier Kathleen Wynne Michael Gravelle, MPP, Thunder Bay-Superior North Gilles Bisson , MPP, Timmins-James Bay
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