NOTICE OF COMMUNITY MEETING - SAVE THE TRI-LAKES (Pigeon, Buckhorn, Chemong)

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NOTICE OF COMMUNITY MEETING
Saturday, November 3, 2018, 2 p.m.
Ennismore Arena
Come meet with your neighbours and other property owners who are concerned about the invasion of planted rice in the lakes.

Agenda Items Include:

History of the lakes and the rice
Concerns including but not limited to:

Safety on waterways
Environmental impacts
Decrease in shoreline property values and how it will affect the community’s tax base
Managing the rice and its debris
Inability to enjoy the waterfront

Possible guest speakers
Mayors-Elect, representatives from the Trent Severn Waterway, and MPs office have been invited.

Confirmation of attendance will be posted on www.savepigeonlake.com.

Actions taken to date
What’s next
We would like your input on possible options moving forward
Questions

This meeting is being held by a group of volunteers in your community.
THERE IS POWER IN NUMBERS. YOUR ATTENDANCE WILL HELP DEMONSTRATE THE SERIOUSNESS OF THIS MATTER.

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3 thoughts on “NOTICE OF COMMUNITY MEETING - SAVE THE TRI-LAKES (Pigeon, Buckhorn, Chemong)

  1. Manoomin (wild rice) has been growing in our lakes for at least 3500 years, and native people have been tending and moving seed around to ensure a secure food supply. When Europeans moved in and took control they built dams and destroyed thousands of acres of our sacred food. Rice Lake where Im from was a place where our people came from great distances to harvest manoomin for hundreds of years. The rice was flooded out by the dams the harvest was over, most of the fish and wildlife that utilized the rice disappeared as well. The manoomin belongs to us leave it alone!

    • Hello Jeff

      Perhaps we should get together and discuss this situation. The areas of our concern is where there was no rice, nor water except for a narrow river that flowed north out of Omemee This area was farmland until the Buckhorn dam was built. At no time since then has there been any large amount of rice stands in this area. In 2013 you made the statement that there was only between 100- 200 acres of wild rice in Pigeon Lake. Kawartha Conservations current estimate is in excess of 1200 acres. This increase in wild rice is a direct result of James Whetung’s seeding open water where there was no rice beds.

      Your 2013 article regarding the restoring of rice beds I believe was meant to return the rice beds to their original state which your elders told you about. I do not believe that the intent was to seed all the open water in the lakes.

      I have stated in every conversation regarding this issue that we respect the traditional harvesting rights of First Nations. And still do. This is not the issue. The issue is the intentional seeding by James Whetung of open water directly in front of properties which is causing irrefutable harm to our community.

      I would like to talk with you and have a dialogue of how we could go forward and come up with ideas of how we could resolve this impasse.

      Yours sincerely
      Larry Wood
      705-304-1668

  2. Great to see this organized!
    Wondering why Big and Little Bald Lakes are not included. They are part of this system and all connected without lockage.
    Thanks

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