solotripper wrote on Feb 5^th, 2020 at 4:59pm:

I'd bet some of those snowmobile trails were cut by the First Nation people who still have camps in the park. They have their own hunting/fishing rights as they do in Quetico I would think?

While I haven't actually noticed snowmobile trails in the park, I have seen several noted on some of the older maps of the park.  And yes, the First Nation peoples have hunting and fishing rights there as well. 

On my very first WCPP trip, I (and a portion of the group I was in that included MagicPaddler and Jimbo) had the good fortune of having a person from the First Nation as our driver on a return shuttle to Red Lake from Leano.  I believe he was even a Tribal Elder.  Over the course of conversation on the return trip, he did relate that they were permitted to take Woodland Caribou from the park, but because of the relative small population of these caribou in the park, they were severely limited.  (Of course, it is illegal for anyone else to hunt these caribou.)

A few years after this meeting, I remember he and the park superintendent made a presentation at Canoecopia, which I attended.  I've often wondered how he might have felt about revealing all the virtues of the place he calls home to a bunch of strangers.

I'll have to apologize for not remembering his name (dang!).

dd