That's why the signing of a joint venture agreement with Buchanan in late June with Agoke Lumber Limited Partnership (an arm of the development corporation) to supply the mill with fibre from the
Ogoki Forest was regarded as "groundbreaking."
This river is supplied by Lake Nipigon and its watershed and by water diverted from Lake
Ogoki into Lake Nipigon.
The journey to his home of
Ogoki Post was 1,000 kilometres.
The bureaucracy is confusing as our hunters could be in 1 of 5 Wildlife Management Units (17, 18A, 18B, 19 or 2lA) or in 1 of 4 Forest Management Units (
Ogoki, Lake Nipigon, Armstrong, or Kenogami Forest).
Kimberly-Clark, which makes Kleenex brand products, promised that it will no longer purchase pulp from the three-million-hectare Kenogami and
Ogoki forests in Northern Ontario unless strict ecological criteria are met.
Earlier this year, the organization photographed huge stockpiles of lumber they claim were cut from Ontario's ecologically valuable
Ogoki Forest.
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Bell estimates logging contractors could harvest between 400,000 and 500,000 cubic metres of fibre from the
Ogoki Forest, which would be sold to Nakina Lumber Inc.
Aroland, Eabametoong and Marten Falls First Nations have signed a forest tenure agreement on the
Ogoki Forest in northwestern Ontario.