MEN FINED $2,250 FOR LEAVING GARBAGE ON CROWN LAND

[Some Old Guy 968]

Two men have been fined a total of $2,250 in three separate cases for leaving garbage on Crown land.

A local tourist outfitter in the Red Lake area, has been fined $1,750 in one incident and $250 in another, for offences under the Public Lands Act.

In the first incident, the outfitter had illegally built a structure on Crown land in 2005 at a remote lake locally known as Surprise Lake. He had also left camping gear and other items at the site. After a lengthy investigation, Ministry of Natural Resources Red Lake District conservation officers determined that the outfitter was responsible.

In another incident, the outfitter left a tent bottom structure and other items at a Restricted Land Use Permit site that he had used for conducting a moose hunt during the fall of 2006.

A man from Wallaceburg, Ontario, was fined $250 after being convicted of leaving garbage and various items from his moose hunt camp after the 2007 fall hunt.

All three sites were cleaned up by the defendants prior to the court date.

The cases were heard in Ontario Court of Justice, Red Lake, on September 10, 2008.