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Canadian WILDERNESS a Publication of • Fall/Winter 2008 a New Future for Parks Canadian WILDERNESS A publication of • Fall/Winter 2008 a new future for parks + CPAWS turns 45 + Nahanni headwaters protected DISPLAY UNTIL MAY 2009 Publication Mail Agreement 40033545 Toute Cher membre, • Spring/Summer 2008 NATUREA publication of Nous sommes heureux de vous HORIZONS offrir notre magazine en français. SAUVAGES Pour recevoir une copie, s’il vous plaît, contactez-nous. [email protected] 1-800-333-WILD CONTCONTACT US CPAWS SNAP (CPAWS) Quebec CPAWS Ottawa Valley 613-569-7226 or 1-800-333-WILD 514-278-7627 613-232-7297 www.cpaws.org www.snapqc.org www.cpaws-ov-vo.org CPAWS British Columbia CPAWS New Brunswick CPAWS Saskatchewan 604-685-7445 506-452-9902 306-955-6197 www.cpawsbc.org www.cpawsnb.org www.cpaws-sask.org CPAWS Calgary/Banff CPAWS Newfoundland CPAWS Wildlands League 403-232-6686 709-726-5800 416-971-9453 or 1-866-570-WILD www.cpawscalgary.org www.cpawsnl.org www.wildlandsleague.org CPAWS Northern Alberta CPAWS Nova Scotia CPAWS Yukon 780-432-0967 902-446-4155 867-393-8080 www.cpawsnab.org www.cpawsns.org www.cpawsyukon.org CPAWS Manitoba CPAWS Northwest Territories 204-949-0782 867-873-9893 www.cpawsmb.org www.cpawsnwt.org IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR MEMBERS CPAWS’ 2008 Annual General Meeting November 30, 2008 in Ottawa, Ontario Bylaw changes will be presented for approval. The proposed changes will be made avail- Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society able on the website or by request with the location of the AGM by October 18, 2008. 506-250 City Centre Avenue Ottawa, ON K1R 6K7 The following slate of nominees will be voted on: Evan Sorestad, Tracey Williams, Sherri Watson, Julie Davidson and Raymond Plourde. 1-800-333-9453 [email protected] Biographies can be found on the CPAWS website at www.cpaws.org, or can be mailed to members on request. IN THIS ISSUE CPAWS celebrates 45 years FEATURES DEPARTMENTS Nahanni River headwaters protected • 4 2 • President’s desk A big step forward in protecting Nahanni forever. 45 years and on A new future for parks • 5 10 • TRACKS ACROSS CANADA Most parks fail at their primary goal: protecting species and ecosystems. A big gain in Nova Scotia, an Here’s what we can do about it. award for Calgary, and an opportunity for New Brunswick Ontario sets new bar for wilderness protection • 7 How an outdated Mining Act led to the biggest conservation 12 • hoT OFF THE PRESSES announcement in Canadian history. New books on Caribou and Yukon canoeing make great gifts 13 • CPAWS PEOPLE Reflections from long-standing CPAWS members Cover: “My friends and I rushed to the top of Sulphur Mountain in Banff National Park half an hour before the last gondola trip down. The late September sun had just started to set, giving the landscape a warm, golden glow. Never actually having seen mountains before, I was so overwhelmed by their beauty that I had trouble taking this photo because my eyes wouldn’t stop tearing up and I couldn’t see through the viewfinder. I have never seen anything so breathtaking in my life!” Photo: Geneviève Parisé Above: Monarch butterflies gather at Point Pelee National Park before heading south over Lake Erie. Read about biodiversity problems in Pelee and other small parks on page 5. Photo: Bonnie Bailey Canadian PRESIDENT’S DESK WILDERNESS FALL/WINTER 2008 45 Years and On VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2 SHERRI WATSON CPAWS is Canada’s voice for wilderness. PAWS is 45 years old this year— recognition that Since 1963, we’ve played a lead role in Cand what a lot we have done in the extinction creating over two-thirds of Canada’s that time! We have grown from one of species—up protected areas. office to 14 from coast to coast to coast. 10,000 times the National Office We’ve taken the lead in protecting 4 expected rate 506-250 City Centre Avenue million hectares of Canada’s unique and according to Ottawa, ON K1R 6K7 precious wild places—iconic names like the IUCN—is Telephone: 613-569-7226 Banff, Nahanni and Algonquin. What primarily associated with loss of habitat Fax: 613-569-7098 will the next 45 years bring? Will Can- and that large proportions of their avail- E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.cpaws.org ada continue to have wilderness where able territory must be preserved for grizzly, caribou, wolves, whales and large species to survive in the long term. NATIONAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES songbirds thrive, or isolated parks that, As well, the growth in outdoor recre- Sherri Watson, President zoo-like, allow a few of the remaining ation by millions of North Americans is Oliver Kent, Treasuer species to hang on? David Wright, Secretary a major engine for national economies, Tim Gray, Chair, Conservation Committee Conservation has always been split bringing much needed benefits to local Susan Ellis ideologically between conserving communities. As wilderness around the Mary Granskou Lorne Johnson nature for public activities like eco-tour- world disappears, international tourists David Lang ism, and protecting the natural state can still look to Canada to get in touch Colleen Mooney for the greater good. Current trends with nature. Brooks Pilgrim magnify the differences and conflicting We have our work cut out for us. Wayne Sawchuk values. In addition to unprecedented Evan Sorestad CPAWS’s vision that Canada will set a expansion of human populations, Tracy Williams new global standard for the conserva- industrial invasion of the remotest parts Joshua Wolfe tion of nature, securing at least one-half of the globe and climate destabilization, of our public lands and waters as a per- TRUSTEES EMERITUS we have globalization. Phil Dearden manently wild trust Canadians hold for Gordon Nelson Global economic decisions on the future all humanity, won’t be easy to achieve. Al Davidson of the planet are made in cities often Luckily, we have some great assets to Bob Peart remote from the affected communi- dedicate to the job. We have a team EDITORIAL TEAM ties, in rooms deprived of any view of of dedicated staff across the nation, Anne Levesque: National Executive Director nature and where it’s easy to marginalize thousands of volunteers and an exciting Ellen Adelberg: Director of Communications ecological sustainability. The challenge is partnership with Mountain Equipment Sue Novotny: Editing and design growing to spread the ethos of wilder- Coop on The Big Wild to encourage Jaclyn Threadgill: Design consultant ness protection. An increasing percent- Canadians to voice their support for age of our population are immigrants wilderness protection. The continued who have never had the opportunity to contributions of all of our supporters ISSN 1717-8894. Postmaster: send Canadian get out in Canada’s wilderness. We are will be essential to success. address changes to CPAWS, 506-250 City Centre raising a generation of twelve-images- As I write this, an election looms with Ave, Ottawa ON K1R 6K7. per-second beings, wedded to technol- the environment a possible major theme ogy and virtual experiences without Canadian Wilderness is published twice per year for the first time in electoral history. I effort, but missing the rewards of actu- (Spring, Fall) by Canadian Parks and Wilderness Soci- hope we’ll have succeeded in making ety (charity #10686 5272 RR0001) Send comments ally experiencing our wilderness realities wilderness conservation a part of the and suggestions to [email protected]. that rejuvenate the spirit. dialogue, and a part of people’s voting © 2008 Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. No There are some counter-balances. There considerations. For we have much to do part of this publication may be reproduced without is slow acknowledgment that maintain- in the next 45 years. • express permission in writing from CPAWS. ing air and water quality and agricul- tural health relies on large intact tracts of lands and waters. There is broader Sherri Watson is CPAWS’ National President. 2 • CANADIAN WILDERNESS • Fall / Winter 2008 www.cpaws.org CONSERVATION WATCH Nahanni Timeline 1970 In the face of a proposal to dam the South Nahanni River, CPAWS/NPPAC* leads a nationwide public campaign to protect the Nahanni in a national park. A “Park or Power” speaking tour crosses Canada, and CPAWS organizes an expedition to the Na- Photo: Adam Smith Photo: hanni. Our first recommendation to protect Nahanni River headwaters the entire watershed is made in 1971. 1972 CPAWS/NPPAC celebrates protected for future national park the establishment of a national park reserve in the Nahanni that protects 1/7th of the significant achievement which is sci- n April 2008 CPAWS celebrated the an- watershed, but suggests that it needs to be ence-based, championed by Aboriginal Inouncement by federal Environment greatly enlarged. Minister John Baird that the headwaters organizations, and overwhelmingly of the South Nahanni River in the North- supported by northerners and Canadi- west Territories are now temporarily ans from across the country”. 2000 CPAWS joins Dehcho First protected to enable the creation of a new Nations in calling for the protection of CPAWS has been leading a public national park, to be called Nááts’ihch’oh the entire South Nahanni watershed in an campaign for many years to protect the [pronounced naah-tseen-CHO]. expanded national park reserve. entire South Nahanni Watershed by ex- This new national park is to be estab- panding Nahanni National Park Reserve lished in collaboration with the local and protecting the adjacent headwaters. 2003 CPAWS, joined by celebrities Aboriginal people of the Sahtu region, and journalists, hosts an expedition on the and will protect a critical part of the Nahanni to highlight the need to better South Nahanni Watershed. The park PARK EXPANSION UPDATE protect Nahanni.
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