Help Save Wolf Lake

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Wolf Lake is the site of North America’s largest old-growth red pine forest (1600 ha) is once again being threatened with mining. Located in Greater Sudbury, this ecological treasure has survived acid rain, forest fires, and generations of disturbances. Wolf Lake is filled with red pine trees that are over 300 years old, that’s wider than two people’s arm spans to wrap around.

Mining exploration activity is damaging Wolf Lake old-growth red pine forest (read more here). We need your help to stop any future destruction of Wolf Lake.

Let’s Keep ...

More at: earthroots.org/forests

Wolf Lake is the site of North America’s largest old-growth red pine forest (1600 ha) is once again being threatened with mining. Located in Greater Sudbury, this ecological treasure has survived acid rain, forest fires, and generations of disturbances. Wolf Lake is filled with red pine trees that are over 300 years old, that’s wider than two people’s arm spans to wrap around.

Mining exploration activity is damaging Wolf Lake old-growth red pine forest (read more here). We need your help to stop any future destruction of Wolf Lake.

Let’s Keep this Special Place Special

This special place is a jewel of northeastern Ontario. It’s a perfect snapshot of what the region was before intensive forestry, mining, and urbanization.

As a part of the Chiniguchi Waterway, this area is visited by naturalists, school groups, academics, adventurers, and environmentalists to see and learn from the towering trees, quartzite cliffs, and wildlife calling this place home.

We Need Your Help

Please send this letter to Premier Doug Ford ([email protected]), David Piccini, Minister of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks ([email protected]), George Pirie, Minister of Mines ([email protected]), and Graydon Smith, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry ([email protected]). Ask them to do their jobs and protect Wolf Lake and Ontario's wilderness.

If you have been to Wolf Lake, we encourage you to reach out to your local representatives and share personal stories in addition to this petition.

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I am writing to share my concerns with mining exploration activities in Wolf Lake Forest Reserve and urge you to take immediate steps to protect this sensitive and unique old-growth red pine forest. Please take all possible actions to minimize the damage from current mining exploration activity and put a plan in place for permanent protection of Wolf Lake old-growth forest without delay.

Wolf Lake is a critical ecosystem and the largest old-growth red pine forests in North America. This area is a natural gem of Ontario's north, drawing people from around the world to paddle and camp. It is some of the last remaining 1.2% of the red pine's original range and must be protected.

Mining exploration activity during the past two winters have negatively impacted this fragile ecosystem, and more activity is planned. Every new impact erodes Wolf Lake’s ecological health and beauty.

As a forest reserve, Wolf Lake is a ‘park in waiting’ and its ecological and recreational values must be honoured and protected.

The health of old-growth forests affects all of Ontario. With the intensifying effects of climate change, it is more important than ever to protect old-growth forests like Wolf Lake.

As an Ontarian, I request you protect Wolf Lake now as promised by governments since 1999. Both the federal and provincial governments have goals of protecting land and water in Ontario in addition to climate targets that are supported by nature based-climate solutions. Protecting Wolf Lake's 1600 hectare old-growth red pine forest would be a prime candidate to help meet those targets. In 2022, we have many ways of protecting an ecosystem including Indigenous led conservation areas and through our parks systems.

I look forward to hearing from you promptly about your plans to conserve this special place.

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