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Northwaters and Langskib canoe tripping programs have earned international recognition for experiential programming and for the development of outstanding youth leaders. From our island basecamps in the heart of Ontario’s Temagami Forest Reserve, our canoe adventures take us through beautiful and rugged country, creating opportunities for learning from the land and one another in a spirit that honours awareness, freedom, balance and trust.

We are committed to empowering young people to grow into the best version of themselves. We believe in teaching young people how to be with the land, the water and the sky, how to be with one another, and ultimately how to be with themselves.

At NWL we believe our canoe trips serve as an excellent metaphor for life’s journey and represent an important rite of passage into adulthood. We find that young people return each summer because we represent a unique blend of adventure and personal growth in a highly supportive, natural environment. We teach and role model responsibility, compassion, decision-making, cooperation, resourcefulness, integrity, respect, and common sense.

While the experience is challenging, it is not about conquering rivers or mountains. Emphasis is rather upon learning from the land and one another in a spirit that honours balance and respect. We have found that when participants learn to handle life on the trail, they become better equipped to handle life in general.

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Langskib Wilderness Programs offers a unique blend of adventure and personal growth in a highly supportive atmosphere.  From our picturesque island basecamp in the heart of the Temagami Forest Reserve, we offer authentic wilderness experiences which have earned us international recognition for our experiential programming and for the development of outstanding young leaders. 

Our wilderness canoe trips take us through some of the most beautiful and rugged country in the world, creating opportunities for learning from the land and one another in a spirit that honours awareness, freedom, balance, and trust. 

Offering 2, 4 & 7 week programs for boys ages 10-18.

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Canoe tripping at Camp Temagami is a fun and exciting wilderness adventure that offers real reward; it is the ideal pursuit to empower adolescent development. Our program is designed to promote self-reliance, provide a link to the past, a connection to the landscape we travel through, and encourage valuable personal growth.

We engage campers in active learning that does not need to be staged or manufactured and offer a rare opportunity to unplug from a world full of technology and “virtual” experiences. Each participant receives the necessary instruction and guidance to foster self-confidence, leadership, teamwork, friendships, and community through personal accomplishment.

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Canoe tripping is the core activity at Camp Temagami, and every group takes trips matched to its age and experience.

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Our full service base camp sits on a private 20-acre island at the top of the Southwest Arm of Lake Temagami, Ontario. The island is home to historical 1930s structures, new amenities, a ball field, and a pristine clearwater bay.

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We have boys and girls programs for every age group and session length. Under the right circumstances, we offer co-ed programs for older campers.

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Thieves likely killed Australian and American tourists on a surfing trip to Mexico

Family members identified the bodies sunday, according to baja california state prosecutors, by the associated press and nbc 7 staff • published may 5, 2024 • updated on may 5, 2024 at 7:29 pm.

Relatives have positively identified the bodies found in Baja California as the two Australians and a San Diego man who disappeared last weekend, Mexican officials said Sunday.

Since the victims' relatives identified them, genetic testing is not needed to confirm their identities, according to the State Attorney General's Office of Baja California.

Thieves apparently killed the men on a surfing trip to Mexico in order to steal their truck because they wanted the tires, authorities said earlier on Sunday.

The corpses were decomposing after the thieves dumped them into a remote well about 50 feet (15 meters) deep, some 4 miles (6 kilometers) from where the foreigners were killed. The well also contained a fourth cadaver that had been there much longer.

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The cause of death for the three bodies recovered in Baja California on Friday was ruled a shooting, the medical examiner's office in Ensenada said on Sunday.

Two bullets were recovered, accounting for two of the three gunshot wounds to the head of each body, all identified as men, approximately 30 to 40 years old, according to the ME. They were likely to have been dead for five to seven days, the ME added.

The three men were on a camping and surfing trip along a stretch of coast south of the city of Ensenada, posting idyllic photos on social media of waves and isolated beaches, before they went missing last weekend.

But Andrade Ramírez described what likely would have been moments of terror that ended the trip for brothers Jake and Callum Robinson from Australia and American Jack Carter Rhoad, who multiple people have reported lived in San Diego. Callum lived in Ocean Beach.

She theorized the killers drove by and saw the foreigners’ pickup truck and tents and wanted to steal their tires. But “when (the foreigners) came up and caught them, surely, they resisted.”

She said that’s when the killers would have shot the tourists.

The thieves then allegedly went to what she called “a site that is extremely hard to get to” and allegedly dumped the bodies into a well they apparently were familiar with. She said investigators were not ruling out the possibility the same suspects also dumped the first, earlier body in the well as part of previous crimes.

“They may have been looking for trucks in this area,” Andrade Ramírez said.

The thieves allegedly covered the well with boards. “It was literally almost impossible to find it,” Andrade Ramírez said, and it took two hours to winch the bodies out of the well.

The site where the bodies were discovered near the township of Santo Tomás was near the remote seaside area where the missing men’s tents and truck were found Thursday along the coast. From their last photo posts, the trip looked perfect. But even experienced local expats are questioning whether it is safe to camp along the largely deserted coast anymore.

The moderator of the local Talk Baja internet forum, who has lived in the area for almost two decades, wrote in an editorial Saturday that “the reality is, the dangers of traveling to and camping in remote areas are outweighing the benefits anymore.”

But in a way, adventure was key to the victims’ lifestyle.

Callum Robinson’s Instagram account contained the following slogan: “If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.”

At Sunday's news conference, Andrade Ramírez was questioned by one reporter who expressed approval that such a massive and rapid search was mounted for the foreigners, but asked why, when local people disappear in the area, little is often done for weeks, months, or years.

“Do you have to be a foreigner in Baja California in order for there to be an investigation if something happens to you?’ asked the reporter, who did not identify herself by name. ”Every investigation is different,” Andrade Ramírez replied.

As if to underscore that point, dozens of mourners, surfers and demonstrators gathered in a main plaza in Ensenada, the nearest city, to voice their anger and sadness at the deaths.

“Ensenada is a mass grave,” read one placard carried by protesters. “Australia, we are with you,” one man scrawled on one of the half-dozen surf boards at the demonstration.

A woman held up a sign that read “They only wanted to surf — we demand safe beaches.”

Gabriela Acosta, a surfer, attended the protest “to show love, solidarity and respect for the three lives that were lost.” Acosta said that surfers in Baja are aware of the dangers.

“We are women and we would sometimes like to surf alone,” Acosta said. “But we never do that, because of the situation. We always have to go accompanied.”

“I think that what happened to them is just an example of the lack of safety in this state,” she said.

Baja California prosecutors had said they were questioning three people in the case, two of them because they were caught with methamphetamines. Prosecutors said the two were being held pending drug charges but continue to be suspects in the case.

A third man was arrested on charges of a crime equivalent to kidnapping, but that was before the bodies were found. It was unclear if he might face more charges.

The third suspect was believed to have directly participated in the killings. In keeping with Mexican law, prosecutors identified him by his first name, Jesús Gerardo, alias “el Kekas,” a slang word that means “quesadillas,” or cheese tortillas. Andrade Ramírez said he had a criminal record, and that more people may have been involved.

Last week, the mother of the missing Australians, Debra Robinson, posted on a local community Facebook page, appealing for help in finding her sons. Robinson said Callum and Jake had not been heard from since April 27. They had booked accommodation in the city of Rosarito, not far from Ensenada.

Robinson said Callum was diabetic. She also mentioned that the American who was with them was named Jack Carter Rhoad, but the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City did not immediately confirm that. The U.S. State Department said it was aware of reports of a U.S. citizen missing in Baja, but gave no further details.

In 2015, two Australian surfers, Adam Coleman and Dean Lucas, were killed in western Sinaloa state, across the Gulf of California — also known as the Sea of Cortez — from the Baja peninsula. Authorities said they were victims of highway bandits. Three suspects were arrested in that case.

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Music | Review: Legendary punk acts gather in a parking lot to rock with fans

Black flag, dead kennedys among the highlights.

“My doctor told me that, from a medical standout, I’m too old for punk rock,” the Dead Kennedys vocalist joked.

He then went right ahead and proved this (most likely fictitious) doctor wrong, as he led the legendary San Francisco punk band through some of the greatest material ever produced in the genre.

Too old for punk rock? Is there indeed such a thing? It sure didn’t seem that way during the Punk in the Park American Road Trip’s show at the Cow Palace in Daly City on Saturday. The event — which was held in the parking lot adjacent to the barn-shaped venue that hosted everyone from KISS to The Doors in its heyday — featured some 10 bands and a goodly number of musicians who are in their 50s, 60s and even 70s.

And all of the ones I saw at this event, which kicked off around noon and stretched past 9 p.m., had no problem turning on the punk-rock power as they delighted fans who, in many cases, were in the same age frame as these old-school punk performers.

So, yeah, take that Mr. (again, probably fictitious) doctor.

The show — which represented the maiden voyage into Northern California for the Orange County-based Punk in the Park concert series — delivered nothing short of one of the finest collections of California punk rock ever witnessed around these parts. The list of participants read like roll call in a punk rock hall of fame, with the Descendants, the Vandals, the Dead Kennedys and Black Flag topping a bill that also featured the Exploited, the Dickies, the Adolescents and more.

There was also a pre-party show on Friday at the same venue with Suicidal Tendencies, Guttermouth and other acts.

The Black Flag set alone was worth the price of admission on Saturday — and certainly worth braving the cold, wet and uneven weather. The Hermosa Beach outfit delivered a high-adrenaline half-hour set that was filled with such memorable songs as “Can’t Decide,” “I’ve Had It,” “Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie” and “Black Coffee.”

The whole quartet — including vocalist Mike Vallely — sounded terrific. Yet, the star of the show remains the mighty Greg Ginn, who used the band’s Punk in the Park set to showcase why he’s one of the best guitarists in punk rock history.

The thing is, ironically, his leads can sound so un-punk rock, as he jams and twists his way through complicated passages in fashions that would impress the likes of Richard Thompson and Phil Manzanera. A few of those leads — such as the one that came in the blazing set opener “Can’t Decide” — were simply breathtaking.

Black Flag closed the set in triumphant fashion with a pairing of the fan favorite “Rise Above” and its raucous cover of “Louie Louie” — the latter of which delivered one of those wonderfully joyous moments that feels like it will stay with everyone in the crowd for years to come.

Next up was the best Bay Area punk band of all time — the Dead Kennedys — who also turned in a powerful half-hour set that inspired much action from the black-clad Dickies-and-Vans-wearing fans in the massive circle pit in front of the stage.

Opening with “Forward to Death,” the group — which still consists of original members East Bay Ray on guitar and Klaus Flouride on bass — marched on through such skewering slices of satire as “Kill the Poor” and “California Uber Alles,” all of which feel as relevant today as when they first came out in the ’80s.

Greer (a founding member the Wynona Riders before taking up with the DKs) was a whirlwind on the microphone, ending the show out in the audience and launching the biting words of “Holiday in Cambodia” right into the faces of audience members. (Personal aside: At one point, I lost sight of him in the crowd and then suddenly felt a hand on my shoulder — and it was Greer, microphone to his mouth, about 10 inches away from my face. Just plain awesome.)

The Vandals vibe, of course, was entirely different than the hardcore punk sounds of Black Flag and the DKs. They are purveyors of pop-punk, which means they don’t take themselves all that seriously onstage. And they may well have been the only people at the show not wearing mostly black clothes. Yet, the Huntington Beach act is seriously fun and sounded pretty great as it rolled out such favorites as “It’s a Fact,” “The Legend of Pat Brown” and — let us not forget — the classic title track to 1995’s “Live Fast, Diarrhea.”

The Vandals ended the set with a powerful one-two punch of “My Girlfriend’s Dead” — the proudly tasteless tune that basically set the blueprint for everything that would come from Blink-182’s career — as well as a nice cover of the Simpletones’ “I Have a Date.”

The Descendents closed out the day in rip-roaring punk rock fashion, running through the first half-dozen or so songs of their headlining set in what felt like about six minutes. Still led by Milo Aukerman — the “Milo” in the title of Manhattan Beach band’s legendary 1982 debut, “Milo Goes to College” — the Descendents wowed the fans with such offerings as “Feel This,” “On Paper” and “Clean Sheets.”

In all, it was quite the Road Trip for Punk in the Park. And we can only hope that organizers will decide to make another one to the Bay Area in 2025.

The Vandals lead vocalist Dave Quackenbush, from left, and guitarist Warren Fitzgerald perform on stage during the Punk in the Park Festival at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Calif., on Saturday, May 4, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

Music goers get a much needed break from the rain as Black Flag performs on stage during the Punk in the Park Festival at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Calif., on Saturday, May 4, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

Dead Kennedys bassist Klaus Flouride performs on stage during the Punk in the Park Festival at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Calif., on Saturday, May 4, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

Dead Kennedys lead vocalist Ronald “Skip” Greer jumps into the audience and performs during the Punk in the Park Festival at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Calif., on Saturday, May 4, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

Concertgoers try to pass the time between sets by taking photos of themselves during the Punk in the Park Festival at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Calif., on Saturday, May 4, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray bows to the audience before performing during the Punk in the Park Festival at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Calif., on Saturday, May 4, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

A pair of musicgoers take shelter from the rain during the Punk in the Park Festival at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Calif., on Saturday, May 4, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

A musicgoer watches Black Flag perform on stage during the Punk in the Park Festival at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Calif., on Saturday, May 4, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

A woman crowd surfs during the Punk in the Park Festival at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Calif., on Saturday, May 4, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

The Vandals guitarist Warren Fitzgerald performs on stage during the Punk in the Park Festival at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Calif., on Saturday, May 4, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

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The Temagami area covers about 12,000 square kilometers from Elk Lake in the north, where the Montreal River broadens on its way south, to River Valley, west of North Bay at the confluence of the Sturgeon and Temagami Rivers, and from Lake Timiskaming and the Ottawa River in the east, westward to the Sturgeon River. In the middle sits Lake Temagami. Lake Temagami was once described as looking like a flower, with Bear Island as its center. The six petals of this lake cover 20,210 hectares, and there are 1,259 islands, the largest being Temagami Island, followed by Bear Island. Estimates of the shoreline length vary from 512 to 616 kilometers. The total island shoreline is perhaps another 340 kilometers. Temagami country is a rocky upland plain with a shallow soil covering. This is a border zone between the great boreal forest system to the north and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forest system to the south. Trees are a mix of northern evergreens and hardwoods. White and red pines tower on rocky shores and ridges while jack pine flourishes on burned-over areas. White and black spruce and balsam fir are plentiful. Northern hardwoods such as aspen and white birch may be found adjacent to southern hardwoods like yellow birch and maple on more protected sites. There are wetland communities—scrublands, marshes, floating bogs and black spruce bogs.

Moving ice shaped the surface of most of northern Ontario and Quebec. Four great glacial movements ebbed and flowed across this land, the last being about 11,000 years ago. Lake Timiskaming was formed by one deep gorge, in contrast to Lake Temagami where the great moving sheet of ice created one large lake with six long, narrow strands instead of six separate lakes. When the glaciers finally receded, a huge lake close in size to the present day Great Lakes covered much of the north. It eventually filtered away, leaving behind fertile alluvial deposits, the basis of the rich farmlands around Englehart, Earlton and New Liskeard. The lands around Temagami were wave-washed and left with only a thin accumulation of soil.

Native people have lived in this region for about 5,000 years. The first people in the region appeared in the Archaic Period, from 5000 B.C. to 400 B.C. These earliest people’s lives followed the seasons and the land. In the fall, they camped by the waterways to harvest migrating waterfowl. They moved inland in winter to trap and hunt, and in spring they returned to the water to fish. Fish were caught with bait and traps rather than nets and harpoons. As the days lengthened into summer, the families gathered berries and roots and they socialized. Dugout canoes were used for lake travel, the bow was the main hunting weapon, and native copper was a boon to their existence. This easily-worked metal provided axes, spears, and jewelry. Gradually these people spread out and traded with others to the south.

During the Middle Woodland Period, from 400 B.C. to 800 A.D., seine-net fishing ensured food stocks. Pottery provided food bowls and cooking utensils. In the Late Woodland Period, from 800 A.D. to 1600 A.D., permanent campsites were developed and gill-netting was introduced. The people began experimenting with rock painting, and ceremonies became common.

Archeologists have barely scraped the surface of the land in examining the years of aboriginal life in Temagami before the coming of Europeans. Promising excavation sites are found on terraces near sandy beaches as well as on river and lake banks, sheltered bays, points and islands. Thor Conway, an archaeologist with the Ministry of Culture and Communications, finds evidence of early habitation at almost any well-used portage. At Sand Point the diligent searcher can find remains of several temporary Indian camps. Artifacts in this area dating to the 15th century include arrowheads, pot shards and tools.

The names of the lakes and rivers underwent numerous spelling changes. Grey Owl noted in 1936 that the “the word is Ojibway Indian derived from ‘Temea’ meaning ‘deep’ and ‘Gaming’ meaning “the Lake’ in particular, not a lake in the general sense. “Temeagaming ‘meaning ‘deep-at-the-shore’ is probably the original word slurred to ‘Temagamings.’”

Europeans appeared in the area during the 17th century, but for most it was no more than a place to rest en route to somewhere else. Lake Temagami was not on the great fur -trade routes, and native people had to travel to sell their furs and fish. The area was rich in wildlife—bear, moose, timber wolf, snowshoe hare, lynx, marten, fisher, and many birds. In 1620, Champlain, who was at Lake Nipissing, referred in his journals to the people who hunt and fish to the north. Between 1650 and 1661 marauding Iroquois made several forays into Temagami, cutting off Temagami trade ventures to the south. The Hudson’s Bay Company built a fort at Moose Factory in 1673 and the French Compagnie du Nord began trading nearly six years later. Temagami natives thus began trading north from Lake Timiskaming, eventually traveling much farther north and meeting the James Bay Cree. The European trade caused the natives to rely more on imported goods and less on items of their own manufacture, especially after the Hudson’s Bay Company changes its long-standing policy and began to take trade inland. Following the merger in 1821 between the HBC and the North West Company, the new governor decided to increase competition with rivals such as the American Fur Company of Sault Ste. Marie. This company had a small post on Lake Temagami. Independent traders also set up business on the lake. In 1834, one of those independents was hired by the Hudson’s Bay Company to set up a small trading post on the south side of Temagami Island.

The Temagami Island post was only occupied intermittently for several years, as the Hudson’s Bay Company had difficulty keeping staff in such places. Young men were leaving the United Kingdom in a wave of immigration to Australia and elsewhere; for those already in Canada the new railway boom offered high wages and less isolation than life in the fur trade. James Hackland, manager of the post in 1857, wrote in his diary that “of all the places I have been exposed to since I joined the Hudson Bay service, this is the most wretched.” The Temagami Island Post did not have a trade monopoly anyway, so it never figured prominently in Company plans.

Business at this time was coming not only from trappers, but from surveyors, prospectors, and those who were exploring the land. Company buildings thus began to look more like general stores than fur-trade posts. By Confederation the present location of Temagami village was marked by a couple of cabins. The post on Temagami Island had never been conveniently situated, being at the bottom of a steep hill, so in 1876 it was moved to Bear Island. The only signs of the old post are the remains of a root cellar and a small overgrown cemetery.

The pace of development quickened in the last decade of the 19th century due to prospecting, government survey work, and the colonization movement, and in 1894 C.C. Farr, the founder of Hailbury correctly predicted Temagami’s future as a tourist area: “It is not, nor will it be, a settler’s paradise; but summer tourists will rejoice in it and be glad, for a greater land than Muskoka is there.”

By this time, a few buildings were marking the site of the village of Temagami. Until the arrival of the railway, canoe was the only way supplies and mail reached Temagami. Construction of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario (later to become the Ontario Northland) Railway north from North Bay didn’t begin until 1902.” No private-enterprise builders could be found and so the province built the line itself. The rocky terrain offered construction challenges equal to those of the more publicized route along Lake Superior. The line reached Temagami in 1904, and by 1909 the station had occupied two different locations. With the discovery of silver at Cobalt in 1905, rail service dramatically improved. The railway laid out the town site and built the first log school in 1907. Church services were held only in summer until 1911, when an Anglican minister became the first year-round clergy.

Soon after this, the First World War dried up the tourist traffic to Temagami. It would not return until after 1918, but it returned with a vengeance—it was not uncommon to see up to 300 people on the station platform at train time. The post-war travelers were a different lot from the pre-war ones who had come mainly from the wealthy classes. Now Temagami became host to energetic young loners seeking adventure in the wild, expressing the desire to get back to life in its basic form. These were the first of the canoe trippers who always looked upon Temagami as a special place.

The 1920’s brought a road to Temagami: a crooked, hilly single-lane road from North Bay. A good trip from there took at least two hours. The 1930’s were the Depression years and there was a vast gap between those with jobs and those without. Lucille Ball, Bob Hope and Jimmy Stewart were among the wealthy who visited the area. There were tourists in the summer and some work available on the railway, but for many, government road work was the only source of employment. The road from Timmins to North Bay was upgraded and the new Route 11 highway opened with two paved lanes. The new road meant a smoother trip, but not much change for Temagami in any other way.

Although the Second World War slowed post-Depression growth in the area, it does give an indication of how much Temagami had grown since the Great War. In the 1914-18 war, 33 residents had joined up and 4 did not return. In the 1939-45 conflict, 100 men served and 8 were killed in active service.

In the 1930’s the Royal Canadian Legion supported the band in its attempts to gain a land settlement, for many of the Temagamis were veterans. But not until 1943, when Canada purchased Bear Island from Ontario for $3000, did the Temagamis have a home base, and then it was less than 283 hectares. From that time forward the band has attempted to regain its heritage lands via court action.

In 1951 the Ontario Provincial Police received the first radio-equipped launch in the province to patrol Lake Temagami. In 1968 Temagami was incorporated as an Improvement District with a council appointed by the province. Ten years later the municipal representatives were elected and had responsibility for a much larger area.

From the 1960’s to the present, Temagami’s image has changed drastically. It is no longer seen as mainly a quiet tourist-oriented community, but is now a forum for widely differing political viewpoints, and includes numbers of ecology and economy -oriented organizations. The Temagami Lakes Association, formed in 1931 by cottagers on the lake, has always been concerned with the preservation of the Temagami area. In 1970 its main concerns were water quality, the preservation of the area at the expense of logging close to the lake, acid rain, and increased tourist traffic. A locally sponsored initiative, the Temagami Regional Studies Institute was set up in 1978 to determine the environmental concerns of the area. A more aggressive group, the Temagami Wilderness Society was formed in 1986, primarily to protect the Old Growth pine trees from logging. Members of the organization were not only property owners, but conservationists from across the continent with ties to other groups such as Greenpeace. By contrast, Northcare was organized to conserve the land as a viable economic entity. This interest in promoting economic growth came to prominence with the closure of the Sherman iron ore mine and the depletion of wood reserves for the Milne and other logging companies. Yet another interest came from the Native community. In 1973 the band obtained a land caution. This effectively prevented new uses on the land. A major tourist development had been proposed at Maple Mountain, a sacred area for the Temagami Indians and the caution was granted by the government because the native people had never signed treaties with either the federal or the provincial government and they claimed much of the surrounding territory. As a result, 10,360 square km. in the 110 townships were closed to development.

Although money was given to the community to develop tourist potential and new parks were announced, the provincial government found itself unable to placate any of these interest groups. An Advisory Council was formed to determine ecologically sound land use and potential for the area. But in the fall of 1989 an extension to Red Squirrel Road north of Temagami was built to access old-growth pine for further cutting, and the situation came to a head. Construction was blocked by Native people, members of the Wilderness Society, and the Lakes Association. Several NWL staff helped support the blockade on the Red Squirrel road. Different factions have developed within the native community regarding who should be included in the land settlement and what the settlement should include. Over the years much work has been done to bridge these differences and progress has been made. After more than a century of struggle, a final settlement is expected by 2004 which will give the native community approximately 129 acres of land.

In the past twenty years, many more people have become involved in the future of Temagami and new groups, each with its own unique perspective, have been formed. The Temagami Wilderness Society was created in. In 1974 the AYCLT (Association of Youth Camps on Lake Temagami) was formed with the mission of bringing the camps together in a spirit of cooperation and respect. The Temagami Alliance was created in 1998 acting as a bridge between Resource Extraction Groups and Environmental Groups. Within the township numerous interest groups exist as well. Although differing views regarding what is best for the future of Temagami require continued negotiations, progress towards a sustainable vision for the entire region is being realized.

References, Temagami by Michael Barnes.

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Lawyers for Hunter Biden plan to sue Fox News 'imminently'

Lawyers for Hunter Biden plan to sue Fox News “imminently,” according to a letter sent to the network and obtained by NBC News. 

The letter, dated April 23, puts the Fox News Channel and Fox News Digital on notice for litigation claims arising from the network’s alleged “conspiracy and subsequent actions to defame Mr. Biden and paint him in a false light, the unlicensed commercial exploitation of his image, name, and likeness, and the unlawful publication of hacked intimate images of him.” 

Biden has hired attorney Mark Geragos and his firm to represent him in the Fox litigation efforts. The letter is the second outreach to Fox this month. An earlier letter was hand-delivered to Fox’s counsel two weeks ago, and the network asked for more time to respond, according to a source familiar with Biden’s legal efforts. The April 23 letter included a Friday evening, April 26, deadline to respond. The letter is signed by Tina Glandian, a partner at Geragos & Geragos working on the case.

A Fox News media spokesperson said in a statement on the letter that Hunter Biden's lawyers "have belatedly chosen to publicly attack Fox News’ constitutionally protected coverage regarding their client. Mr. Biden is a public figure who has been the subject of investigations by both the Department of Justice and Congress, has been indicted by two different US Attorney’s Offices in California and Delaware, and has admitted to multiple incidents of wrongdoing. Consistent with the First Amendment, Fox News has accurately covered these highly publicized events as well as the subsequent indictment of an FBI informant who was the source of certain claims made about Mr. Biden.”

Much of the letter from Biden's legal team is focused on a six-part “mock trial” titled “The Trial of Hunter Biden” that aired in October 2021, described by Fox as what a trial might look like if Biden was charged with Foreign Agents Registration Act or bribery charges — neither of which Biden has been charged with. “While using certain true information, the series intentionally manipulates the facts, distorts the truth, narrates happenings out of context, and invents dialogue intended to entertain. Thus, the viewer of the series cannot decipher what is fact and what is fiction,” the letter says. The letter demands that the series be removed from all streaming services. 

On Tuesday, a day after initial publication of this article, Fox announced that it had taken the series off its streaming services. “This program was produced in and has been available since 2022,” said a Fox News spokesperson. “We are reviewing the concerns that have just been raised and — out of an abundance of caution in the interim — have taken it down.”

The new threat of litigation comes almost a year after Fox News agreed to pay almost $800 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle defamation claims related to Fox’s airing of election fraud claims in the 2020 election. Fox News also agreed to a $12 million settlement with a former employee who alleged she was pressured to provide misleading information as part of the Dominion case. 

Fox is currently facing a $2.7 billion lawsuit brought by Smartmatic, another voting system company that was the focus of Fox News coverage, as well as suits brought by shareholders against directors of the company for allowing the channel to air the allegations during its 2020 election coverage. Fox said in its latest financial disclosures that it will contest the lawsuits, but acknowledges that there could be a “material” adverse impact on the company’s business and financial position. 

The plan for Hunter Biden to pursue legal action against Fox News has been in the works for over a year, according to sources familiar with Biden's legal efforts , and was inspired in part by the success of the Dominion lawsuit and the ongoing Smartmatic lawsuit. The effort took on new importance with the revelations that the bribery allegations cited on air originated from the FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who was indicted by special counsel David Weiss in February.

In a statement, Geragos said: “For the last five years, Fox News has relentlessly attacked Hunter Biden and made him a caricature in order to boost ratings and for its financial gain. The recent indictment of FBI informant Smirnov has exposed the conspiracy of disinformation that has been fueled by Fox, enabled by their paid agents and monetized by the Fox enterprise. We plan on holding them accountable.”

Hunter Biden has been a focus of Fox News coverage for the last several years. A review of network transcripts by the group Media Matters cites at least 13,440 mentions of Hunter Biden since January 2023. Biden’s legal team believes the number of mentions over many years makes the potential case as significant if not more so than the Dominion case, according to sources familiar with the legal strategy.

The Biden letter specifically cites Fox’s advancement of bribery allegations by Smirnov, who was indicted in February on charges of making false statements about the Bidens to the FBI. “Smirnov and the post indictment revelations basically closed the loop on the conspiracy,” Geragos told NBC News.

The letter alleges that Fox News knew that the bribery allegations were unverified at the time but continued to report that the source was “highly credible,” and demands corrections and retractions — including on-air statements by television hosts “including Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters, and Maria Bartiromo, to inform their viewers on air that they have been sharing a debunked allegation from a source who has been federally indicted.”

The letter also alleges that Fox’s airing of “intimate images” belonging to Hunter Biden that his lawyers claim were “hacked, stolen, and/or manipulated” violates Biden’s civil rights as well as copyright law.

This new litigation push comes as Biden prepares for a summer of criminal trials. His trial on gun charges in Delaware starts June 3, and his tax case is expected to go to trial in August. He’s pleaded not guilty in both cases.

Sarah Fitzpatrick is a senior investigative producer and story editor for NBC News. She previously worked for CBS News and "60 Minutes."