Management Plan Review

Introduction | Terms of Reference | Our Response to the Terms of Reference | Your Thoughts and Comments

The Quetico Park Management Plan Review is underway. This critical process will plot the future of Quetico Provincial Park for decades to come. The draft Terms of Reference were released in July and named The Quetico Foundation to the Advisory Group for the project.

This review is one of the most important tasks the Foundation will undertake and is at the core of our purpose. The Foundation has created a three-person Plan Review Committee led by Trustee and Chair of the Liaison Committee, Cam Clark. In representing the Foundation’s interests, our Review Committee will be relying on the input of the broader team - all Foundation Trustees and concerned members of the public.

The Plan Review is complex and must consider many issues from economic development in the surrounding area to invasive species within the Park. Simultaneously, it must align itself with policies and regulations imposed upon it by three levels of government.

The Terms of Reference have been reissued following the September 15, 2006 deadline for comment. They can be reviewed here (the original is on the Ontario Parks' website at http://www.ontarioparks.ca/english/quet_planning.html). The Foundation’s response to the draft Terms of Reference focused on ensuring that the review was comprehensive, specifically requesting the inclusion of the following in the review process:

• The greater parks ecosystem
• Connectivity between the parks in the Quetico-Superior region
• Proposed hydroelectric development on the Namakan River
• Forest management activities outside of the Park
• Motorized guiding
• Scientific research
• Park use and capacity issues
• Aircraft activity

The real discussion is starting this fall and winter. We will have no right to complain after the fact if we do not participate fully in the process now. Please review the Foundation’s complete response to the Terms of Reference and follow progress on the Master Plan Review process on our website and the Ontario Park’s website. Get involved and send your submissions, comments or questions to us at office@queticofoundation.org or to our office in Toronto.

Please support The Foundation’s raison d’etre - "the preservation of wilderness!"