By: Jared Stachiw, Quetico Provincial Park Biologist Quetico Provincial Park is one of the hidden jewels of the Ontario Parks system. Tucked away in Northwestern Ontario, between Thunder Bay and Fort Frances, it is comprised of both Boreal and Great Lakes-St. Lawerence forests. At nearly 1.2 million acres of rugged wilderness, it is one of […]
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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
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By: Connor and Raquel The Quetico Foundations’ biology team has just finished two backcountry trips into the northern regions of the park for surveillance of an invasive plankton-eating species called the spiny water flea (SWF). The purpose of these trips was to go to lakes that have no confirmed cases of SWF and use weighted
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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
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By: Raquel and Connor The biology research team completed our first environmental monitoring trip this past week, deploying acoustic monitors on Pickerel Lake to identify bird populations in the area. The morning of our trip we got everything organized within the staff house for our departure. We were quickly picked up and relocated to Stanton
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