Songbird and Wetland Bird Monitoring 2019
Songbird Monitoring update…1 Wetland Bird Monitoring introduction…2 Songbird Monitoring update:
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Acoustic Bat Surveys in Quetico Provincial Park
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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Results of Broadscale Monitoring 2010-2017
It is field season for biologists again, including our biology interns! Did you know that Broadscale monitoring is the standard aquatic ecosystem monitoring program in Ontario? Our Quetico Foundation summer biology internship program participants helped with the aquatic monitoring! That’s Amy Adair, 2017 biology intern holding a lake trout shown in the broadscale monitoring summary!
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Pay to Slay is Not the Way!
The province, northern Ontario and jeopardized wildlife in Ontario need your help. Ontario’s government announced its intention to gut the province’s Endangered Species Act (ESA). Please send an email to your MPP, make your views on the ESA known through the Environmental Registry or through Ontario Nature’s petition here: https://ontarionature.good.do/esa2/sign/ or https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/013-5033. It’s easy to believe in a
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Quetico Foundation celebrates 65 years
Quetico’s wilderness has been the focus of conservation action, backcountry exploration, engaging leadership skills and local environmental studies by Quetico Foundation for 65 years and advancing! Please email us your favourite experiences with the Quetico Foundation with us or your favourite Quetico wilderness memories at queticofoundation@gmail.com or post them with this blog.
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2019 Artist In Residence application deadline March 31
Enjoy creating wonderful inspired art in the wilderness of Quetico Provincial Park! Apply now to be a Quetico 2019 Artist in Residence, the deadline is March 31st. The Quetico Foundation can also pay for part of these travel expenses and initiated the artist in residence cabin. Please see https://queticofoundation.org/what-we-do/arts-culture/ for more information.
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Oh my magpies! Christmas Bird Count locally coordinated by Quetico Foundation trustee emeriti
Do you love science and observing birds? Read about Dave Elder’s sighting of black-billed magpies, a species typically found further west, in Atikokan as well and his contributions to the Atikokan Christmas Bird Count here: https://view.publitas.com/on-nature/winter-2018/page/6-7. Dave Elder is a former Quetico Provincial Park superintendent and a Quetico Foundation Trustee Emeriti. Amazing work Dave!!!
Happy holidays from the Quetico Foundation!
The yuletide holiday season has begun! Days we can be grateful for wonderful on-the-lake memories under the sun. Days when we reflect on the gorgeous portages, hard won. Days when there will be lots of fun in the snow under the pines to come! Wishing a merry, joyous, inspired and happy festive season to everyone!
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A Quetico Foundation Halloween
Happy Halloween! We think about the wilderness of Quetico and The Foundation at every moment!
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