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KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS / April 12 2007 - 070412 - KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS / April 12 2007 - 070412 - ******embargo till 12.01am CT. April 22 and the Free Press has agreed to be the still photography pool supplying pictures to CP and Canwest news services - Alexandra Paul Story - Poplar River ‘s Sophia Rabliauskas has been selected as the winner of the 2007 , Goldman Environmental Prize , for her groups efforts to protect traditional aboriginal lands that include boreal forest on the east side of Lake Winnipeg from hydro and lumber projects and to establish “rightful ownership” of lands that have been part of aboriginal culture for thousands of years . Boreal mixed forest along the east shore of Lake Winnipeg with spruce and poplar trees dominating .