Hey, so db started this thread about the new Quetico Preliminary Management Plan: (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

If you go to the link he's got there, look for:
2013
Preliminary Management Plan - PDF

I browsed over the whole thing & it looks like it's pretty low-impact to any of us using the park:
- camping remains the same (mostly)*
- fishing remains the same (still no live bait, barbless)

* There seems to be one exception, in that a "Nature Reserve" zone will disallow camping in this area:
(am I right about that?) -- see p 24
Provincially rare basic cliff communities are found along the following lakes: Blackstone (1), Other Man (3), Ottertrack (10), This Man (3), Littlerock (2), Emerald (12), Fisher (1), Sheridan (1) and on a tributary of the Wawiag River. The Basic Open Cliff Type is provincially rare and ranked S3S4 (Bakowsky 2002). This zone is delineated as all of the cliff faces on the listed lakes.
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Rock climbing and scrambling, back country camping, and mechanized travel are not permitted in nature reserve ones. Existing campsites in nature reserve zones will be closed and rehabilitated. Commercial trapping in NR zones by Lac La Croix trappers is permitted.

I'd like to see if others (perhaps more familiar with pervious versions of this plan than I) see the same things...

-Tom

With over a month left to care, I was hoping more folks would highlight any concerns they may have so I could read it with different points of skew than my own in mind.

By notifying me of this public comment period window of opportunity - they were asking for YOUR input - as am I.

Anyone else?

I gave up waiting for the "plan" to load on a bad connection so have a question for those who've read it....is the "plan" suggesting that there will not be camping sites on the Man Chain and Blackstone?  Or is it just the areas that are adjacent to the pristine rock cliff environments they want to safe-guard?

My reading of it is that campsites will be closed only in the areas shaded on the map, which are small sections of the shoreline of the mentioned lakes. Unfortunately it looks to include my favorite site on Emerald.

middle pg 28 says they don't plan a new east entry into the park. They site several reasons but sounds like maintaining the road is the biggest issue. Plus the lack of use of the existing northern entry points.

All in all, not many changes. They were moving the Mack Lake Fly-in entry to another lake nearby, but it seemed the qouta stayed the same.

I wasn't aware there was so much trapping in Q, even though I've run across their trapping materials, even boats, stashed at lakes. Sounds like they're allowed some discreetly placed cabins too.