The geopolitical battle to protect Indigenous homeland and wilderness values in Ontario’s pristine old-growth forests has raged for over 175 years and continues today.

Temagami became a household name not so long ago when it was put on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Endangered Spaces listing. The chronic and insidious attack on its resources sounded an alarm that resonated worldwide on all environmental channels and global media outlets. Temagami has therefore become a geopolitical scrimmage between land protectors and environmentalists and the industrial elite, under a failing bureaucratic system bent on plundering Ontario’s primeval old-growth forests.

Hap Wilson, who has spent more than half a century in Temagami as a park ranger, cartographer, wilderness guide, artist, activist and lodge owner, and has brought to light one of Canada’s longest standing environmental battles spanning over 175 years of history.

It’s a story that needs to be told.