Rapid Media's 5th annual Reel Paddling Film Festival showcases the world's best paddling films to audiences in Canada, United States and around the world. The festival inspires more people to explore rivers, lakes and oceans, push physical and emotional extremes, embrace the lifestyle and appreciate the heritage of the wild places we paddle.
The Reel Paddling Film Festival is a film contest awarding winning films in nine categories. The winners and other shortlisted films are then toured to more than 75 cities around the world, screening for an audience of more than 20,000 outdoor adventure enthusaists and their friends and families. The World Tour kicks off earlyl February, check the tour schedule for a screening near you.
The World Tour is hosted by paddling shops, clubs and events (and the odd paddler for his 50th birthday party). Hosts usually sell tickets for their local screening and use the World Tour to generate preseason excitement, as a fundraiser or an evening's entertainment for a paddling event or festival.
The Reel Paddling Film Festival is produced by Rapid Media. Rapid Media also publishes four leading paddlesports magazines: Rapid, Adventure Kayak, Canoeroots and Kayak Angler magazines. Your ticket to a Reel Paddling Film Fesival World Tour stop includes a free one-year digital edition subscription to one of the above magazines. Special offer details are available in your evening program.
Environment Canada’s Canadian Wildlife Service is developing a national recovery strategy for the woodland caribou, boreal population (hereafter referred to as boreal caribou). The purpose of this brief is to inform you of the process for preparing this strategy and to determine your interest in participating.
Toronto – Monday March 8, 2010 at the Ramada Plaza
Thunder Bay – Friday March 12, 2010 at the Victoria Inn
Dryden – Tuesday March 23, 2010 at the Holiday Inn
Timmins – Thursday March 25, 2010 at the Days Inn
Please note: For the Toronto and Thunder Bay locations please register by Wednesday March 3, 2010. For the Dryden and Timmins locations please register by Wednesday March 17, 2010.
Update - FOT Issue Resolution on the 2010-2020 Sudbury Forest Management Plan
On February 12, FOT members Bob Olajos, Ed MacPherson and Alex Broadbent met with the MNR District Managers for North Bay and Sudbury, several MNR staff, Vermillion Forest Management representatives, and representatives of the Sudbury Local Citizens Committee. This was a second stage Issue Resolution meeting regarding FOT's concerns with the 2010-2020 Sudbury Forest Management Plan (FMP).
This FMP overlaps two MNR Districts in western Temagami, including the Sturgeon, Yorston, Pilgrim, Solace, Wanapitei, and Chiniguchi areas. FOT's issue resolution is based on the protection of historic trails, ecological integrity of protected areas, and canoe route values.
FOT and Vermillion both made strong presentations to the District Managers, who will issue a decision within the next month. If their decision is unacceptable to either party, then the issues may be appealed to the MNR's Northeast Regional Director.
An outline of FOT's presentation can be viewed below.
Please come to a wine and cheese social benefitting the Friends of Temagami. We are an all-volunteer environmental organization working to protect wilderness and promote human-powered recreation in Temagami. Special guests include Paul Chivers and Peter Quinby. Paul will present his slideshow, Wilderness Wanderings and Peter will talk about his new book, Ontario's Old Growth Forests.
As this is a fundraiser, we are asking for a "pay-what-you-wish" donation to the Friends of Temagami.
Despite the misting rain and cold, my son Jack, his friend Harvey and I dragged our tails out of the warm cottage and headed to Kawishpakawg, better known as Highrock in our aluminum boat. When we arrived at the island there was a party of four canoes, all young girls about ten or eleven years old with two councilors, on a trip out of Northwaters making camp near the trailhead. I watched as the kids help adjust the tarp, gather wood, all the usual stuff. They were having a ball despite the lousy weather, hungry from their exertions waiting for the quesadillas warming on the fire.
The quesadillas sure smelled good, making us hungry too, but we headed up the trail after chatting with the trip leaders. It is a nice little hike and I highly recommend it. There are Anishnabe prayer flags along the way and on the summit there are a couple of family memorials to loved ones who enjoyed the spot. From the lookout there is a spectacular view of the hub of Lake Temagami. You can clearly see Camp Wabikon from here, which is another reason I noticed the campers. My daughter was at Wabikon at the time and out on a trip herself at that very moment. Not with the group we ran into, but she was somewhere else in the Southwest Arm of Lake Temagami with her own party.
