Photo: the Wilderness Committee
The Wilderness Committee is urging Canadians to remove the Canadian Armed Forces from Manitoba’s Nopiming Provincial Park. According to the Committee, “since the 1990s, a secretive military training base has been disrupting hundreds of square kilometres of sensitive moose habitat and pristine lake shores.”
The bases operations are disruptive and harmful as they include “all-night maneuvers with armed soldiers through the park and cottage areas, firing military weapons, destruction at hundreds of short-term camps, tracked vehicles in areas where offroad vehicles are prohibited and low flying aircraft buzzing forests and remote lakes.”
You can get more information and send a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Premier Wab Kinew, federal Minister of Defense David McGuinty, Manitoba’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Mike Moyes, your MP, your MLA and the campaign at https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/get-military-base-out-nopiming-park.