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January 25, 2006:
Dear
OVTA Members:
- Summer
Fun Guide - Free Listing
- Calabogie
Peaks is looking for Package
Partners
- MNR
- Coordinated lake trout
strategy
- Check
your web listings at www.ottawavalley.org
- Travel
Guide Distribution - expect
your 2006 guides/maps by the
end of February
Summer
Fun Guide - Free Listing
Opportunity
for OVTA members to have a free
listing in the Summer Fun Guide
for 2006. This guide is in its second
year of publication and serves as
a resource to families throughout
Ontario when they are planning summer
holidays and excursions in their
local areas. The booking
form is attached.
Please
fax it directly to the Summer Fun
Guide at 416-444-1289.
500,000
copies will be distributed throughout
the Province through Esso stations
and tourist attractions. Esso will
be helping support the distribution
with in-store displays, pump signage
and on-line through their newsletters
to their members. Please visit their
website to get an idea of on-line
exposure as well. www.summerfunguide.ca.
For more information, please contact
Cynthia Hood at (416) 694-0400.
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Calabogie
Peaks is looking for Package Partners
Matt
Cuccaro at Calabogie Peaks is seeking
contact information for providers
of spring/summer/fall activities
for their guests at the accommodation
units at the Peaks.
They
would sell activities to their clients,
schedule the activity provider and
work out a revenue sharing arrangement.
They
do offer their own waterfront activities-
canoes and kayaks, beach and they
rent mountain bikes. They
do not provide guide or instructional
services.
Examples
of what they would like to offer
their guests; hiking tours,
canoe excursions, nature walks with
interpretation, sailing, ATV tours,
bike tours, mountain biking tours,
waterskiing/wakeboarding, jet ski
rides/tours, GPS/Geocaching instruction/guiding,
etc.
If
an OVTA member would like to investigate
this opportunity contact Matt at:
tel 613-752-2720 ext 1516.
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MNR
- Coordinated lake trout strategy
Lake
Trout Lake protection policy; the
focus is protecting lake trout lakes
from unsustainable shoreline development
and nutrient inputs. Policy to protect
other important cold water fisheries
such as: whitefish, smelt, brook
trout, splake, brown trout, rainbow
trout, and various salmon is still
lacking. These coldwater fish species
also require clean, coldwater with
oxygen levels similar to that required
by lake trout. Many non-Lake Trout
coldwater lakes in Renfrew County
are being degraded by nutrient inputs
from shoreline development, these
important coldwater fisheries are
at risk of being lost due to declining
water quality. Renfrew County is
experiencing a boom of shoreline
development, this development could
be done in a more environmentally
fashion so as to preserve our fisheries
habitat and lake water quality.
Long
term land values around our coldwater
lakes could also be in jeopardy
if water quality becomes poor or
shorelines become ugly from too
much development/use. Local planning
authorities (County and Municipalities)
overseeing development of shoreline
areas need to know that the protection
of coldwater fish habitats and lake
water quality is important to the
public and necessary for sustainable
economic growth so they will feel
obligated to add protective measures
to their Official Plans. If you
get the chance to comment on the
development of your local Official
Plan this is a good thing to support
or ask for to protect your coldwater
lakes. Tania Baker, Biologist, Pembroke
District Ontario Ministry of Natural
Resources, 31 Riverside Drive Pembroke,
Ontario, K8A 2H4, Direct Line: 613-732-5582
Fax: 613-732-2972 January
17th, 2007
Subject:
Proposal for a dissolved oxygen
criterion for the protection of
lake trout habitat. On October 13th,
2005, Minister Ramsay announced
the development of a co-ordinated
strategy to protect lake trout lakes
in Ontario. An Information Notice
about the proposed strategy was
posted on the Environmental Bill
of Rights (EBR) Registry. As part
of the co-ordinated lake trout strategy,
MNR is proposing a uniform standard
dissolved oxygen criterion to determine
development capacity on lake trout
lakes for use by MNR field staff
and municipalities. The criterion
was developed by Dr. David Evans
of ARDS and will help ensure that
water quality for lake trout will
be protected. The Ministry is posting
a Proposal Notice for the dissolved
oxygen criterion on the EBR Registry
for a 45 day public comment period.
Written submissions may be made
between January 17th, 2006 and March
3rd, 2006. The proposed criterion
will apply to lakes that are currently
identified by the MNR as being managed
for lake trout. A web-link to a
comprehensive list of lake trout
lakes is included with the Proposal
Notice.
To
view the October 13th, 2005 News
Release, visit: www.mnr.gov.on.ca/MNR/csb/news/2005/oct13nr_05.html
To
view the Information Notice, visit:
www.ene.gov.on.ca/envregistry/026447ex.htm
To
view the Proposal Notice, visit:
www.ene.gov.on.ca/samples/search/Ebrquery_REG.htm
, and enter Registry Number PB06E6807.
Once
the approval process is complete
and a Decision Notice posted, Fisheries
Section will follow-up with direction
to the field and technical guidelines.
I’d like to thank the many MNR staff
who have contributed to this exercise
to-date, particularly Field Services
staff who spent considerable effort
to verify the list of lakes managed
for lake trout. As I outlined in
my memo of October 14th, 2005, Fisheries
Section is continuing to work on
the other components of the lake
trout strategy announced by the
Minister. Specifically, we
are working with Land Management
Section, Renewable Energy Section,
and other groups within MNR to consolidate
land management policies for Crown
lands adjacent to lake trout lakes,
and subsequently amend the relevant
area-specific land use policies
in the Crown Land Use Policy Atlas.
We are also completing the
regulatory proposals for the management
of the lake trout sport fishery
(tool kit). We anticipate
consulting on these components later
this winter.
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Check
your web listings at www.ottawavalley.org
OVTA
has completed the revisions to the
members listings on the OVTA website.
Please check your listing, and let
us know if there are any errors.
Thank you!
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Travel
Guide Distribution
Expect
your 2006 guides/maps by the end
of February. If you area seasonal
business, your shipment will be
sent in May.
Thank
you for your time. Please contact
me if you have any questions,
Marie
White
Tourism Communications
Ottawa
Valley Tourist Association
9
International Drive
Pembroke,
Ontario K8A 6W5
613-732-4364
/ 800-757-6580 ext. 459
mwhite@countyofrenfrew.on.ca
www.ottawavalley.org
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