Donald Meeseetawageesic, a band councillor for Eabametoong First Nation, became stranded on a winter road in March while trying to reach his community. The route, vital for access to cities, has been compromised by warming winters, which weaken snow bridges and thin lake ice. For more than 50 Indigenous communities, these ice roads are essential as they lack all-season roads. As climate change disrupts traditional methods of transport, the significant reliance on these seasonal roads poses increasing safety risks.
The warming climate is causing traditional winter roads, which connect many Indigenous communities to vital supplies, to become increasingly dangerous and unreliable.
This year’s mild winter has weakened the traditional snow bridges and reduced the thickness of lake ice, impacting the safety of vital winter travel.
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