Wabakimi Provincial Park

IUCN Category II - National Park

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The Wabakimi Provincial Park is a 1983 equipped 8920.61 km ² provincial park in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located northwest of Nipigonsees and since the six-fold increase of its area in 1997 after the Polar Bear Provincial Park is the largest provincial park in Ontario.

The park area consists of a very extensive system of rivers, lakes and portages. Accordingly, no road access is possible; however, allow the Caribou Lake Road from via Armstrong Road ( Ontario Highway 527) of Armstrong, the Little Caribou Lake and Caribou Lake the ride up in areas near the park, as well as the 702 Camp Road East from Savant Lake to the Flindt River system and the Graham Road, which leads north from the Trans -Canada Highway and Bright sand River system. Of these access routes only canoe paths lead on to the park. Only accessible by floatplane or train, he can be reached directly. The Canadian National Railway touched the park in the southwest and VIA Rail operates three times a week passenger wagons with.

In and around the park are other protected areas along rivers, such as the Ogoki River to the east, the Albany River in the north, at Bright Sand River in the southwest and on the Kopka River in the south.

The park is home in addition to numerous other species woodland caribou. In addition, petroglyphs could be documented.

Since 1999, an interim management statement, a transition management plan exists, then, an official management plan does not exist. Thus, the protection of the territory based on general provisions on the provincial parks in Ontario, by Parks Canada and two from 1983 originating Nipigon District Land Use Guidelines and the Thunder Bay District Land Use Guidelines, so guidelines of Nipigon and Thunder Bay district. 2003, a management plan has been proposed, but in 2006 the overarching Provincial Parks Act was replaced by the Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Act, which places a greater emphasis on the protection and 'conservation areas that belong to any park. This includes a five-year period has been set to create a management plan. Public participation and information is then transported through a special website where all relevant for a topic of legal changes may be recalled, the so-called Environmental Registry. Since 2008, there for the Ogoki Forest ( 10,885 km ²), of going far beyond the park, and the Caribou Forest ( 5799.87 km ²) management plans, which are valid until 2018. Living in or near this vast forest area, the First Nations of Savant Lake, the First Nation community of Mishkeegogamang and the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen.

Wabakimi Canoe Route project

The Wabakimi Project is a project in which participate since 2004 110 volunteers to map the historically important canoe routes in the park and in the adjacent Crown land. These 548 portages and about 500 camps were discovered, exposed, and some restored. The ultimate goal of digital maps are available. In 2010 alone, worked up to 54 volunteers on the project, which was held between May to September.

It is planned to publish the maps in five volumes; two existed in 2010, Vol 3 followed in 2012. Volume 1 provides maps for the region on Ogoki River and its northern tributaries (Vol. 3 complements the southern tributaries ) to the Caribou River route. Volume 2 contains 22 cards from the upper Albany River and its southern tributaries (Vol. 4 is to deal with its tributaries between flap Lake and Lake Abazotikichuan ). Volume 5 finally will provide maps of the northern tributaries of Lake Nipigon.

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