The Quetico Foundation – Foundation News

A wonderful visit with Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor

Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor paid a visit to Quetico Provincial Park on July 26^th 2017 and had a particular interest in the Foundation’s research activities.

The Lieutenant Governor was in Quetico and specifically asked to meet with our students.

Our research team met with her, Tanny Wells, Quetico Foundation co-chair also did – our research team had the chance to deliver a hands on show and tell. Bird song recorder, crayfish trap, fire pattern tree regrowth samples and notes seen on table.

The Lieutenant Governor is even holding her new Quetico Foundation shirt!!

By Noah Cole|July 31st, 2017|Foundation News, Park News|Comments Off

Quetico Foundation Annual Canoe Day 2017 – Cootes Paradise was a great success!

Thank you to everyone! We had a great time hiking, birdwatching and canoeing on a great guided tours at the Royal Botanical Gardens.

Quetico Foundation Canoe Day – Cootes Paradise,
Royal Botanical Gardens,
May 13 2017

This event supported Quetico Foundation‘s Ridley Wilderness Youth Program, providing young leaders from across the Toronto District School Board with a wilderness canoe trip experience in Quetico Park.

Learn more about the Quetico Foundation and the Ridley Wilderness Youth Program: https://queticofoundation.org/what-we-do/programs/

By Noah Cole|June 8th, 2017|Events, Foundation News, Public Meetings|Comments Off

Join The Quetico Foundation for our Annual Canoe (&Hike) Day at Cootes Paradise Sanctuary

By Noah Cole|April 12th, 2017|Events, Foundation News, Fundraising, Public Meetings|Comments Off

Paddle Ahead: Double the Impact of your Donation Today!

Update! June 14 2017 – We’ve reached $30,700!

WE DID IT! YOU PROVIDED GENUINELY SUBSTANTIAL SUPPORT AND CLOSED THE GAP BEFORE JUNE 30 2017! Thank you to all those wilderness enthusiasts and paddlers who have helped us achieve our goal!!

The fundraising deadline by the end of June is coming soon, and we have impressively reached beyond this matching target.

The impact of your support will be doubled towards the preservation of Quetico Park and the important youth focused education and research programs that the Foundation supports.

Donate to the Quetico Foundation and help keep our canoe on course – in ensuring the preservation of our 150 year old Canadian wilderness! Before you throw your canoe on the car and escape into the backcountry for the summer, dig deep and paddle us to our $25,000 destination! Join our race! Every stroke you take will be matched dollar for dollar by a most generous family Foundation.

It’s not too late you can still make a donation to help the Quetico Foundation further address our goals.

Click here to go to the Quetico Foundation on Canada Helps to make your gift today!

Thank you for your support.

By Noah Cole|April 6th, 2017|Action, Foundation News, Fundraising|Comments Off

Join our partner the Quetico Foundation-US in their Inaugural Celebration on April 28, 2017

By Noah Cole|March 16th, 2017|Events, Foundation News, Public Meetings, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Save the date! Quetico Foundation’s canoe day is May 13th!

By Noah Cole|February 28th, 2017|Events, Foundation News, Fundraising|Comments Off

Interested in working for The Quetico Foundation this summer?

JOB POSTING – 2017 SUMMER STUDENT RESEARCH PROGRAM

By Noah Cole|February 22nd, 2017|Foundation News, Jobs|Comments Off

Quetico Foundation’s 2016 Meeting & Celebration of the Season – Thanking and awarding Peter Dalglish

At Quetico Foundation’s 2016 Meeting & Celebration of the Season in December, we took the opportunity to thank Peter Dalglish for his significant contribution to the Foundation over the past 25 years – and presented him with a Quetico Foundation commemorative paddle made by XY Paddles. Thank you Peter!

By Noah Cole|January 25th, 2017|Foundation News|Comments Off

Quetico Foundation’s Annual Art Show – Shapes and Sizes – Nov 3 2016

Thursday November 3^rd 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

By Noah Cole|October 18th, 2016|Events, Foundation News, Fundraising|Comments Off

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:

: Group photo! Summer Student Research Group and Biology Interns, Credit: Hannah Koslowsky

: Kiara paddling Sturgeon Lake. Credit: Hannah Koslowsky

: Loons in the rain on Fern Lake.

: Western painted turtles in Stanton Bay.

: Dragonflies emerging.

: Catching frogs to swab for disease

: Found a central newt to swab

: Ty found a baby snapping turtle on Basswood Lake

: Great snapping turtle close up. Snapping turtle populations are declining in Ontario. Snapping turtles are a species at risk.

: Ty and western painted turtle or “Hey, photograph me with this great student from the Student Summer Research Program team”

: Start of Trip 3 to collect songbird meters

: Hannah organizing the traps for the next lake

: Brigitte with the first rusty crayfish

: Storm blowing in with rainbow, Pickerel Narrows

: River otter in creek off Fern Lake

: Group shot at our first campsite on Basswood

: Juvenile Bald Eagle in Stanton Bay

: 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.