Project Healing Waters
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The guest list is complete - at least south of the border. The soldiers attending the 2009 "Healing On The Albany" - event July 11-17, at our Miminiska Lodge have been determined.
A non profit group called "Soldier On" here in Canada is rounding up Canadian soldiers to join us.
The Plan: we should have about a dozen vets.
However, WE need your help.
Your gift of money helps pay for transportation and equipment.
Send a check made out to Project Healing Waters to Wilderness North PO Box 914, Langley, OK 74350.
Our podcast with Mark Snyder, from Washington DC will bring you up to date. Click here to listen.
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Pete's Thoughts About the Wilderness
"All of the information, tools and effort in the world can't produce results without healthy fisheries.
With finite fisheries and ever-increasing pressure on them, proper fish handling and management become more of a necessity. As anglers who want to be able to continue to enjoy time on the water, and hope that our friends, family and offspring do too, we really need to consider the proper handling of fish intended for release as seriously as we do the planning and "tricks" to trick 'em into biting.
The topic of healthy fisheries isn't real gripping stuff - but it should be, since nothing results in more fish-catching than healthy waters with many fishes."
Pete Maina
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Link for CPR Handling
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Past Podcasts, Newsletters, and Fishing Reports
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You now have access to past newsletters, fishing reports, and podcasts.
Click here to find and hear past podcasts, they are listed with titles and topics, with the latest at the top of the list.
Check the Wilderness North archive page for newsletters and fishing reports.
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Just one example of the bug repellent clothing items available at the Orvis website. Click here for others.
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Core Values
...by Alan Cheeseman
It seems everything I read today is about companies and persons "returning to their core values." Especially in light of the current economic climate.
HMMM? I guess those things we have always valued are just now coming back into vogue. Like the idea of "Going Green."
For guests who return year after year, and even for those who have experienced their first adventure into "the remote and remarkable" boreal forest: Well it is all green. Always was! Always will be, if we have anything to say about it. That is why we help our guests become co-protectors for the wilderness. And it all starts with knowledge. So let's learn together:
In this newsletter, Tyler will teach you more in his podcast about the condition of, and ways to protect our Ontario fisheries.
Graham Saunders our meterorolgist and environmental watch dog describes a cooperative "Gardening in the Wilderness" project for the summer of 2009, with students from Lakehead University here in Thunder Bay.
And today you'll learn more about an insect repellent that is a simple patch you stick on your arm - or a hat or a shirt you wear. So let the learning begin.
But what about the economy? Good question!
Today we are the first outfitter in Canada to create and make available at our website:
"Full Disclosure Trip Pricing"
Now, no matter what your currency*, our rates page at the website computes and reports your basic trip cost, taxes, license fees, even bed and breakfast at our Armstrong base. Instantly. Completely.
Print the proposal? - - - - - Yup!
E-mail it to a friend? - - - - No Problem!
* BTW the current US/CAN exchange rate means big savings for US guests.
A follow up chat with a Wilderness North trip planner can lock in your dates and destinations, and right now every member of your group can earn 100 WilderBucks for booking and paying before April 15th.
Just click here - - to get sample pricing instantly.
Your comments are welcome as well your request for more information. You may call me at 888-465-3474 or send in those e-mails.
Alan
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You're Growing What - Where? ...by Graham Saunders
Potatoes. Peas. Carrots, and maybe lettuce and few other "exotics" - that's the plan for organic gardens at Wilderness North's floatplane base near Armstrong and up at Miminiska Lodge for the summer of 2009.
A special study project I'll be managing will teach students how this can all happen in soils once thought "no good" for such crops and all in a short season with late spring and early fall frosts a challenge as well.
Together with the staff of Wilderness North and a couple of special students from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, these gardens will be planted, and guests will be served their bounty by late July - if all goes according to plan.
I'll tell you more in my podcast - click here.
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Taking Care of Business - Everyday!
(No this is not Bachman-Turner Overdrive's concept.)
...by Tyler Lancaster
I was reading a column by Pete Maina this past week. Pete is a young guy with his own Outdoor TV show here in Ontario. (That's his photo with a large muskie in a landing cradle in the sidebar on the left.) His comment: that the business of introducing guests to the Canadian wilderness is "all about the fishery" is spot on. So I reviewed some of my old class notes from Sir Stanford Fleming College just to make sure my head was in the right place when it comes to protecting this great resource we all share.
I have prepared both a podcast and a downloadable short paper to share with you on preserving our boreal forest fisheries. Both discuss what Mother Nature contributes to the making of a great fishery, and what we can do as stewards of the wilderness to keep it great. Click here to listen to the podcast. Click here to go to downloads for your own copy of "Tyler Lancaster talks about Fisheries."
Tyler
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Question #3
The first thing - first time callers - ask us when we get them on the phone is:
Where are you?
The second is: What is the weather like?
The third is likely to be: What about the bugs?
And there is no denying it, we do have a few here in the boreal forest. The birds call them dinner, the bugs call us dinner. And short of Deet based products, there is not much you can do - - - Wait, this bulletin just in!
All Natural Patch Keeps Bugs Away!
It' a simple patch you stick on your arm. It helps your body produce thiamine (Vitamin B1), in fact to produce way too much thiamine, and it releases the over production through your sweat glands.
Frankly speaking, bugs hate thiamine sweat. So they bite the other guy in the boat. We looked at a patch product called Repel 24seven, and liked the fact that it was all natural and contained NO deet.
This is not an endorsement of this or any product, and there are a few more on the market, but we thought you would like to stop scratching and start learning by clicking here.
Plus, you may already know that clothing is now available that has insect repelling values. From feathers you place in your cap or or hat, to shirts, pants, caps, etc. - it is easy to learn more from the the folks at Orvis. Click here to review their choices. 
BTW: Did you know that Wilderness North's Miminiska Lodge is the ONLY Orvis endorsed lodge destination in Ontario?
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