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7. Consider alternative solutions to environmental restoration andpreservation.8. Find and foster workable solutions to e nvironmental restoration andpreservation.9. Persevere remember that this process of change is a long term one andthat it will never end.This evolutionary process will be lead by ordinary people like you and me, notpolitical leaders. Try to come up with your own set of objectives.AlgonquinNorth of Toronto is a large provincial park called Algonquin. In the park are manylakes, trails, and campsites. Many of them are only accessible by canoe. My firstcanoe trip into the interior of this park was with m y brother. Despite having grownup going to YMCA camps for many years as a youngster and as a teenager, thiswould be the first out-trip as an adult. We prepared in characteristically Wilsoncavalier fashion, with a minimalist approach bordering on foolh ardy. This was thewild where anything might happen.We rented the traditional aluminum Grumman variety familiar to us as YMCAcampersjust in case we took some difficult rapids, the thick aluminum wallswould save us. We did this despite planning for two long portages in order to getaway from everybody. Leaving Toronto on a Friday evening is never a pleasanttask with all of the other traffic racing to get north. We would arrive too late, wefeared, to pick up our canoe. We arrived around 6pm as the sun was starting to set.The clouds looked ominously gray. With pots dangling and clanking from our packswe loaded up the only ultra heavy Grumman aluminum being used by any campers.Every other wimpy group was using some red Kevlar canoes that looked terriblylight and breakable. Hmm?We had little time to waste, as our first campsite was a considerable distancepaddling and a long portage away. As we paddled hard into the wind the rain startedpelting us. The winds got stronger the further we got out onto the large lake. Wecould hardly see the shore. We didnt really know where we were going. Our mapwas getting soaked. It started getting darker and darker. After an hour or two welooked at each other and agreed we werent going to make it to our plannedcampsite. We made for shore partially with some level of fear that the growing188