Green Cottager Guide
This guide is a comprehensive compilation that includes valuable information as well as useful tips on how you can become a green cottager. Also consider the "Quick Tips Reference Guide," a condensed version of the handbook containing just the tips. Download both now.
Manitoba's spectacular wild places offer abundant opportunities for relaxing, recreating, and connecting with nature. Natural lands and waters provide inspiration to the many people who have chosen to purchase or build a cottage inwilderness country.
Few people have a better opportunity to observe the effects of human activities and pollution on the wilderness than cottagers, many of whom return each year to the same location and whose knowledge of the local area may have been passed down by previous generations. With over half a million cottages across Canada, cottagers, as a group, can have quite a positive or negative impact on the environment.
For cottagers to continue fully enjoying their homes away from home, it's essential they take measures to ensure their environmental footprint is as small as possible. Collectively, taking positive steps based on informed choices will help keep our treasured sanctuaries clean and healthy for future generations of wildlife and people.
The Green Cottager Guide is intended for use by individual cottagers, cottage associations, non-governmental environmental
organizations, and all other citizens with an interest in preserving the natural beauty and functions of the ecosystems where they live, work and enjoy outdoor activities.
The guide is a comprehensive compilation that includes valuable information as well as useful tips on how you can
become a green cottager. Download this handbook for reference, or print it to keep at the cottage, and share it with friends and neighbours. Consider printing the "Quick Tips Reference Guide," a condensed version of the handbook containing just the tips, to post on your cottage fridge.
We hope the Green Cottager Guide finds a useful place in your cottage and helps you do your part in keeping Manitoba's wilderness beautiful and well for all.
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The Sustainable Development Innovations Fund with Manitoba Conservation provided funding for this project.
Proposed Tim Horton Kid’s Camp
The Manitoba government and the Tim Horton’s Foundation are proposing a kid’s camp on Meditation Lake in Whiteshell provincial park. CPAWS is highly in favour of children experiencing and enjoying wilderness but the proposed location for the camp is unsuitable and the government’s antiquated approach to “developing-before-planning” is being heavily criticized.
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