Poplar River is a small First Nation community on the east shore of Lake Winnipeg, 400 km north of Winnipeg. I was fortunate to be able to spend some time there on assignment for National Geographic Magazine, with writer Ed Dobb, looking at the community and their efforts to protect their ancestral land, a part of the vast Boreal forest, continuously inhabited by their ancestors for over 6000 years.


(http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/150224-poplar-river-first-nation-ojibwa-manitoba-global-warming-conservation/). 


Accessible only by air for most of the year, the community will eventually be linked via a new all-weather road to population centres further south. Polar River's isolation had a cost, as will its new connection to the wider world.