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September/October, 2004
Canadian Geographic
CONSERVATION
The Group Save Our Seine (SOS) has lived up to its name by pushing
to protect an urban forest along Winnipeg’s Seine River.
The Seine begins in the Sandilands Provincial Forest southeast
of the city and drains into the Red River at St. Boniface, providing
a thin strip of deciduous wilderness for much of its urban length.
And one of the biggest parts of that forest is being preserved
thanks to an agreement between SOS, the City of Winnipeg and the
Province of Manitoba.
“This forest is the heart and lungs of the Seine,” says SOS Coordinator
David Danyluk. “It’s the largest green space along the river aside
from the golf courses.”
At the end of last year, SOS was running short on the $600,000
the city said it needed to buy the land. With two days until the
fundraising deadline and with 5.3 hectares of the 32-hectare forest
still at risk, the province said it would secure the rest of the
land by the end of 2004.
We claim to be a green city,” says Danyluk. “And this is one
way to do it, by not trashing the green space.”
Jim Chliboyko
 see
also: Disappearing River (Canadian
Geographic)
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