Electric Dirt Farmer

It seems that along with the silt the bureaucratic nonsense is building up at Pelican Lake. The Province of Manitoba is being prevented from opening the artificial inlet to the lake by DFO because the inlet has been classified as protected habitat. The problem is that the purpose of the inlet is to manage the lake level and therefore protect the larger habitat it represents.

Anyone who knows anything about Pelican can tell you that the level of the lake is critical to the health of the lake. I think this is true of most the lake in the area. The thing is that Pelican is most valuable as a viable fish habitat and sailing lake. Left to its own devices (i.e. with no reliable natural inflow) the lake would likely be neither. It makes no sense that the minor habitat of the inlet should dictate the management of the whole lake.