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Quetico Foundation’s Annual Art Show – Shapes and Sizes – Nov 3 2016
Thursday November 3rd from 5:00-10:00 pm, The Quetico Foundation is once again partnering with the Taylor Statten Camping Bursary Fund (TSCBF) for the annual Art Show to be held at the Storys Building, 11 Duncan Street near the corner of King and Duncan!
This year’s show ‘Shapes and Sizes’ will be profiling approximately 150 works inspired by the province’s great outdoor spaces, landscapes, cities and towns, including featured artists –Steve McDonald, David Marshak, and Elzbieta Krawecka.
Our art collection from our Artists in Residence will be in the show!
Please come out, have fun, buy and see great art and get together with colleagues and friends with food, drink, appetizers and a great evening that is widely appreciated, helps young minds and young leaders, helps protection and appreciation of our wilderness and helps gives young people the chance to go to camp and experience Ontario’s great outdoors.
Click here to buy tickets and claim your spot at this year’s amazing art evening
Biology Intern Team and Student Summer Research Program 2016 Photo Blog
This summer, throughout May, June, July and August, Quetico Foundation’s Student Summer Research Program team and our biology intern team studied invasive species, monitored songbirds, studied blister-resistant white pines, as well as ecosystem and aquatic ecology monitoring! This year marks the 20th anniversary of our Student Summer Research Program and the 10th anniversary of the Biology Intern program!
The students had a great time, discovered and studied quite a few species and had the chance to study and explore a diversity of habitats in Quetico’s wilderness.
Check out this photo blog:
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- Group photo! Summer Student Research Group and Biology Interns, Credit: Hannah Koslowsky
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- Kiara paddling Sturgeon Lake. Credit: Hannah Koslowsky
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- Loons in the rain on Fern Lake.
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- Western painted turtles in Stanton Bay.
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- Dragonflies emerging.
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- Catching frogs to swab for disease
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- Found a central newt to swab
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- Ty found a baby snapping turtle on Basswood Lake
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- Great snapping turtle close up. Snapping turtle populations are declining in Ontario. Snapping turtles are a species at risk.
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- Ty and western painted turtle or “Hey, photograph me with this great student from the Student Summer Research Program team”
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- Start of Trip 3 to collect songbird meters
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- Hannah organizing the traps for the next lake
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- Brigitte with the first rusty crayfish
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- Storm blowing in with rainbow, Pickerel Narrows
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- River otter in creek off Fern Lake
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- Group shot at our first campsite on Basswood
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- Juvenile Bald Eagle in Stanton Bay
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- Bald eagle hanging out. Bald eagle populations are recovering from being decimated and nearly wiped-out in the 1960’s and 1970’s but remain listed as a species at risk in Ontario.
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- Brigitte checking out the beautiful wilderness at Pickerel Lake
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- a white admiral butterfly visits the canoeists
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- great blue heron
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- enjoying a Quetico sunset
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- A fantastic group photo, Summer Student Research Group and Biology Interns, Credit: Hannah Koslowsky
Learn more about Quetico Foundation’s awesome, insightful and well-acclaimed programs here: https://queticofoundation.org/what-we-do/programs/ and https://queticofoundation.org/what-we-do/science/
All photos provided by Hannah Koslowsky on behalf of Quetico Foundation’s Student Summer Research Team and Biology Interns
Ridley Wilderness Youth Program Highlights 2016 – 10th Anniversary edition
The Ridley Wilderness Youth Program team had an outstanding time in Quetico. The Ridley Wilderness Youth Program (RWYP) is one of Quetico Foundation‘s proudest partnerships with Trinity Theatre and some of Toronto’s young leaders. This year marks the 10th Anniversary and the RWYP team headed out into the wilderness of Quetico Provincial Park, August 4th-12th, to gain leadership skills, wilderness skills, canoe trip experience, sustainable values, team values, personal reflections, life lessons, meet up and learn about ecosystem monitoring and ecology from the Student Summer Research Program and to enjoy backcountry camping and canoeing along waterfalls, the beautiful landscape, old growth forest, shoreline, portages, wilderness, sunset mirrored lakes and pristine waters of Quetico.
This set of 24 photos shows the 2016 RWYP team having a great time in Quetico. Credit: Torie Gervais on behalf of the 2016 Ridley Wilderness Youth Program.
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- 2016 RWYP team headed out into a wilderness canoe camping excursion in Quetico. Credit: Torie Gervais
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- Looking at a topographic map of Quetico.
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- Getting a great official welcome to Atikokan, The Canoeing Capital of Canada
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- Jeremy Dickson, and Canoe Canada Outfitters, introduce the RWYP team to the park and showing them their route.
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- Trevor Gibb, Quetico Park Superintendent, familiarizes us with Quetico.
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- Under blue sky, exploring wetlands along the beautiful shoreline of Quetico on an amazing day
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- Learning how to navigate the portages, canoe routes and waterways in northern Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park
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- Enjoying a nice beach on a blue sky day by the lake with gorgeous shoreline in the background
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- The Student Summer Research Program team provides a demonstration about aquatic species and crayfish monitoring
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- Observing a crayfish to see if it is native or an invasive rusty crayfish in Quetico being removed from an ecology study funnel net.
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- Enjoying the fresh air and surroundings at a great lunch spot in Quetico
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- Having fun canoeing
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- The Ridley Wilderness Youth Program team by beautiful wilderness rapids along a portage in Quetico
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- Portaging the canoe, eh!
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- Learning canoe and camp safety skills
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- Just relaxing in the canoe
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- Fun and great times around the campsite
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- Reflections of the lake and forest – enjoying a beautiful Quetico sunset
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- A friendly face while paddling through the wetlands
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- Epic canoe trip photo: classic wilderness canoe and portage style
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- Jai, a RWYP canoeist from 2014 joined and provided mentorship to the 2016 team
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- Portaging along a Quetico lake-to-lake trail.
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- A great group photo on one of the truely most epic 2016 Quetico canoe trips, Credit: Torie Gervais
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- Finishing photo: Enjoying one of the final sunsets along Quetico’s shores
Quetico Foundation Canoe Day on Big Creek Benefits Student Summer Research Program
Thirty canoeists attended Quetico Foundation’s Canoe Day. We canoed along the Big Creek valley through the Carolinian forest with its verdant trillium carpet and flowering trees, past rolling landscapes with streams and wetlands that feed the headwaters of the Big Creek National Wildlife Area.
Many genuine thanks to each canoeist and everyone for your support of the Quetico Foundation’s Student Summer Research Program on our paddle along Big Creek, Saturday May 7, 2016. As well as for good, wholesome and fun conversations and great canoeing among a great group.
Feature: Student Trail Ambassador summer positions with Path of the Paddle
Path of the Paddle Association is looking for Student Trail Ambassadors
Organization Mission: Path of the Paddle Association (POPA) exists to support the development, stewardship and sustainability of the Path of the Paddle water trail network in Northwestern Ontario in partnership with regional stakeholders.
Position Opening: POPA seeks two dynamic, extroverted, experienced paddlers to work as student trail ambassadors (we will accept applications from teams of two and from individuals) this coming summer. As trail ambassadors, you will live on the trail for 10 weeks, paddling the 1265km trail from Manitoba to Lake Superior, camping and meeting those travelling the trail and sharing with them about Path of the Paddle and the Trans Canada Trail. You will be living outside and travelling by canoe for the entire time.
Opening Day…
of the Giving Season is December 1st ! Giving Tuesday is a day when charities, corporations and individuals join together to share commitment, celebrate activities that support charities and non profit organizations, rally for their favourite causes, and give something back.
What a great opportunity for us to ‘give back’ to our supporters – that’s you!
First, we want to give a huge THANK YOU for enabling us to deliver the research and education programs in Quetico Park that we do – helping us to add value to wilderness protection in Ontario!
Second, we want to give you a view into the impact that your dollars have in Quetico Park and protection of its wilderness:
“The Quetico Foundation is a strong voice for Quetico, Ontario’s oldest Wilderness Park. And the Foundation goes beyond being a voice and supports Quetico on the ground through its important science and education based programs such as the John B. Ridley Research Library, the Artist in Residence Program, the Ridley Wilderness Youth Program, and the Summer Student Research Program. The Foundation’s ongoing support for research and monitoring contributes greatly towards our capacity to monitor and maintain the Ecological Integrity of Quetico Provincial Park.”
Trevor Gibb, Superintendent, Quetico Park
Places & Spaces Art Show Recap & Thank You!!!!!!!
We had an exceptional evening at the annual Quetico Foundation-Taylor Statten Camping Bursary Fund art show. Many many thanks to the Artists in Residence who donated their pieces, to the great people behind the TSCBF, to the Storys Building, to our Quetico Foundation supporters and to everyone who came out. We really appreciate your support! It was great to help provide further support to the Quetico Foundation’s programs, help send interested young people to camp, wonderful to have great conversations, meet some new faces, make new associates and see old friends. We can’t thank you enough for helping to protect the legacy of our wilderness and natural areas.
Supporters in the crowd appreciating the art at the Quetico Foundation-Taylor Statten Camping Bursary Fund, Places and Spaces, annual art show Photo by Noah Cole
Marjorie Rogers, familiarizing people with Quetico Foundation’s work, announcing a donation to the TSCBF from the Quetico Foundation and encouraging people to help connect others with wilderness and to help support the Quetico Foundation at the Quetico Foundation-Taylor Statten Camping Bursary Fund, Places and Spaces, annual art show. Marjorie is a trustee and the Chairperson of the Quetico Foundation. Photo by Noah Cole
Noah Cole with June Hills “Pickerel Pines” at the Quetico Foundation-Taylor Statten Camping Bursary Fund, Places and Spaces, annual art show. June Hills was the Quetico Foundation’s 2009 Artist in Residence and painted this scene at Pickerel Lake in Quetico. Noah Cole is a Quetico Foundation trustee and a donating artist. Photo by Brittany Manley
Learn more about the Quetico Foundation-Taylor Statten Camping Bursary Fund Places and Spaces 2015 Art Show: Click here
Learn more about the Quetico Foundation’s Artist in Residence program: Click here
Donate to help support our Quetico Foundation programs: Click here