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Submitted photo. Wildfire approaches the Aallcann lumber yard near Whitestar Road Tuesday afternoon. According to a source, staff were moving equipment offsite and working with wildfire fighters to protect treated wood in the area.
Todd Chamberlain was trying to make a phone call when he looked out his front window to see what looked like a puff of smoke rising from the Nisbet forest.
Chamberlain, who lives south of the river on a rural property just east of Prince Albert, spends lots of time looking out his front picture window, taking in the picturesque view of the North Saskatchewan River and Nisbet Provincial Forest.
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First Nation rejects proposal to mine peat on traditional muskeg land near La Ronge
Youth worker Shane Bird prepares a fire to make muskeg tea with a plant that grows in wetlands and is called maskêkopakwa in Cree. Photo by Michael Bramadat-Willcock
The Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) Chief and Council announced its opposition to proposed peat moss harvesting on its traditional territory Tuesday after traditional land users in the area wrote in with concerns that the project would impact their way of life.
Quebec-based company Lambert Peat Moss Inc. raised the ire of some La Ronge area residents when it went public with a proposal to extract peat moss from four locations near the Lac La Ronge provincial park.