A cabin owner illegally built a cabin within a conservation
reserve. The owner was charged. As part of plea negotiations, the
cabin owner proposes a substantial land exchange with the MNR: 40
hectares of new land for the 0.13 where the cabin now stands. MNR now plans to amend the conservation reserve
regulation to allow the swap, which will increase the protected
Provincially Significant Wetland.
Louck Lake Wetland Conservation Reserve is a
265 hectares (ha) conservation reserve located in central Ontario
about 50 km south of North Bay. It protects a large portion of the
Louck Lake Provincially Significant Wetland. Wetlands are extremely
important ecological features, severely threatened by rampant
“development”.
