There’s a new man in the stern for Ontario Parks in Temagami. Kevin Pinkerton replaced John Salo as Superintendent on July 1. Pinkerton, former manager of the Hills Lake Fish Culture Station in Englehart and an expert on the endangered Aurora trout, is now responsible for the area’s two recreation-class parks (Finlayson Point and Marten River) and five backcountry parks (Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater, Makobe-Grays, Solace, Obabika River, and Sturgeon River). Top of Pinkerton’s to-do list will be dealing with public complaints regarding over-zealous permit checking by park rangers coupled with minimal portage and campsite maintenance. When the permit system was introduced in 2005, canoeists were told that the money raised would go directly to backcountry maintenance, but paddlers have yet to see results. Instead, many are feeling the heat as rangers lie in wait at key locations to enforce the permit regulations.