Eric Reder

Get the military base out of Nopiming Park

Nopiming Provincial Park needs peace to recover from the devastating wildfires of 2025. But since the 1990s, a secretive military training base has been disrupting hundreds of square kilometres of sensitive moose habitat and pristine lake shores.  

With the loss of most of the base facilities and the surrounding forest in the 2025 wildfire, it’s time to give peace to nature in Nopiming. 

What’s the military doing in the park?

The base’s operations include all-night maneuvers with armed soldiers through the park and cottage areas, firing military weapons, destruction at hundreds of short-term camps, tracked vehicles in areas where offroad vehicles are prohibited and low flying aircraft buzzing forests and remote lakes.

Every one of these activities has serious impacts to the peace of the park and nature’s ability to heal from the 2025 fires. Please write a letter to elected officials, asking them to remove the burnt military training base from the park.

Your letter will go to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Premier Wab Kinew, federal Minister of Defense David McGuinty, Manitoba's Minister of Environment and Climate Change Mike Moyes, your MP, your MLA and our campaigner.

  • The military training base at Springer creates disruption and destruction across more than a hundred square kilometres inside Nopiming Provincial Park.
  • The base has never been subject to public comment, has never received an Environment Act licence and has never had an impact assessment under either federal or provincial environmental assessment legislation.
  • The base’s operations include all-night maneuvers with armed soldiers through the park and cottage areas, firing military weapons along roadways, destruction of trees and vegetation at hundreds of short-term camps, tracked vehicles operating in areas where offroad vehicles are prohibited and low flying aircraft buzzing forests and remote lakes.
  • Springer Lake was proposed as an ecological reserve because of sensitive species and research in the region, but the military is using it instead.
  • The camp and its operations have not had a federal or a provincial impact assessment, despite its effect on sensitive species.
  • The park will not be suitable for survival training or the war games that this secret military operation runs every year, as the forest has no cover now.
  • Now that the base has been burnt, it should not be rebuilt inside the park.
  • An investigation into the toxic impact of the military base that remains should be undertaken to determine the appropriate remediation measures.
  • The military training base at Springer creates disruption and destruction across more than a hundred square kilometres inside Nopiming Provincial Park.
  • The base has never been subject to public comment, has never received an Environment Act licence and has never had an impact assessment under either federal or provincial environmental assessment legislation.
  • The base’s operations include all-night maneuvers with armed soldiers through the park and cottage areas, firing military weapons along roadways, destruction of trees and vegetation at hundreds of short-term camps, tracked vehicles operating in areas where offroad vehicles are prohibited and low flying aircraft buzzing forests and remote lakes.
  • Springer Lake was proposed as an ecological reserve because of sensitive species and research in the region, but the military is using it instead.
  • The camp and its operations have not had a federal or a provincial impact assessment, despite its effect on sensitive species.
  • The park will not be suitable for survival training or the war games that this secret military operation runs every year, as the forest has no cover now.
  • Now that the base has been burnt, it should not be rebuilt inside the park.
  • An investigation into the toxic impact of the military base that remains should be undertaken to determine the appropriate remediation measures.