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Summary of Forest Birds Monitoring in Quetico Provincial Park 2014 – 2019

Monitoring the diversity and abundance of forest birds and their changes through time is part of assessing the ecological condition of an area. Within Quetico Provincial Park, a long-term monitoring program using equipment that records bird songs at permanent sample plots was established in 2014 to monitor songbirds in specific habitats. The data resulting from […]

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A Proposed US Mine Could Poison Quetico’s Pristine Watershed

For those who love the wilderness, watersheds and wildlife of Quetico Provincial Park irreparable damage to the watersheds and landscape from toxic mining tailings is a completely vile and virtually unacceptable thought. Yet, a national newspaper, The Star features a front page article about the potential demise for the southern and western border and south-westerly

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JOB POSTING – 2020 Research Field Team Program

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JOB POSTING – 2020 Research Field Team Program Position: Research Field Team Lead (Assistant to the Park Biologist) Location: Quetico Provincial Park, Atikokan ON, P0T 1C0 Length of Employment: 16 weeks – early May to the end of August Application Deadline: March 2, 2020 or when position is filled Position Description:

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Highlights of Quetico Provincial Park Bat/Bapakwaanaajiinh Survey: 2017-19

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Introduction: Bats (bapakwaanaajiinh in Anishinaabemowin) are an important component of biodiversity, particularly as a voracious insect predator. Five species of bat have been reported in Quetico, including three species of migratory bats – Hoary Bat (Lasiurus cinerius), Silver-haired Bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) and Eastern Red Bat(Lasiurus borealis) as well as two non-migratory species – Big Brown

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Species At Risk in Quetico Provincial Park

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A plant or animal is considered a Species at Risk when it is in danger of being either extirpated (disappearing from an area it currently occupies) or becoming extinct. Species can also be considered of “Special Concern” if their populations are threatened, for example by significant loss of habitat. Species within Quetico Provincial Park that

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Agnes-Kawnipi Lake Red Pine Post-Event Fire Scar Study

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In mid-June the Quetico Park Biology team (Park Biologist Brian Jackson and the Assistant Biologists Jared Walter Stachiw and Cat Langillle) along with QPP Information Specialist Jill Legault surveyed the red pine forest stands along Agnes and Kawnipi Lakes for fire-scarred tree samples. When a fire injures a tree, it creates a scar at the

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Reflections on Quetico from Long-time Assistant Biologist

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As an assistant biologist in Quetico Provincial Park for the last three years, working on behalf of the Quetico Foundation, it has been both my job and my pleasure to collect scientific data in the remote wilderness of Quetico. The work I have done has been varied, including vegetation surveys, bat monitoring, and dendrochronology, which

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Sunfish monitoring in Quetico Provincial Park

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Quetico Provincial Park is near the northern most range of four species of sunfish – the pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus), green sunfish (Leopmis cyanellus), bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), and the northern sunfish (Lepomis peltastes). The northern sunfish has recently been assessed under both federal and provincial legislation to be a Species of Special Concern within the Great

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Songbird and Wetland Bird Monitoring 2019

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Songbird Monitoring update…1 Wetland Bird Monitoring introduction…2 Songbird Monitoring update:

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Acoustic Bat Surveys in Quetico Provincial Park

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Bat surveys are done three times a summer with an ultra high frequency microphone that picks up bats ultrasonic calls. The survey crew, composed of Cat Langille and Jared Stachiw, canoe from The Pines on Pickerel Lake to the north shore of French Lake just after sunset, slowly following the shoreline to pick up bat

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