By: Raquel and Connor

The Quetico Foundations’ biology team finished our deepest trip into the park yet, which
required the depth mapping of several lakes including Keewatin, Williams, and Kawnipi. The
purpose of this excursion was to determine what conditions lake trout could inhabit, by going to
lakes confirmed with lake trout presence and collecting data on their bathymetric profiles. This
information will be used for further estimates of lake trout presence in the park and identifying
their breeding grounds and habitat conditions for further study.

By: Raquel and Connor

The biology research team completed our second environmental monitoring trip on
Pickerel Lake this past weekend. We travelled around Emerald Island and Lookout
Island, into Pine Portage Bay and up into Pickerel Narrows to retrieve the acoustic
monitors we had deployed on our previous trip and re-deploy them in different unique
habitat types. Each habitat will likely have a diverse host of different species of birds
that will be calling out during the breeding season. Included in some of the habitats that
we set data collection devices in were dense upland coniferous forest, wide clearings of
marshes bordered by tall spruce trees, and very wet mossy areas covered in blooming
labrador tea.