Lemoine Point Conservation Area
Earlier in the week I went with a bunch of friends to Lemonie Point in Kingston, Ontario. It's a very popular area for walkers/runners/cyclists and also for families. It has picnic areas, a few large fields, several miles of walking trails and you can go swimming there (though it doesn't look like a great place to swim). It's the first time I've been there since I came to Kingston 4 years ago! Yikes! .. o_O .. It was a great spot. I would definitely go again .. =D .. hope you enjoy the sights and sounds! ~ hugs, katie
Camping at Longpoint Ontario 2018
Ontario camping at Longpoint Provincial Park
Kingston's wetland!
That awesome wetland is on an island not far from Kingston, Ontario.
I've never seen so many frogs... mostly leopard frogs and some HUGE bullfrogs... the video quality kindo suck but you can hear me being quite astonished of their size... and trust me I've seen my share of monster frogs!!
We need more conservation area like this one. Just suck bullfrogs envaded but those leopard frogs are doing oddly well altho these monsters must be feeding on them without hesitating.
Trail Guide Toronto Nottawasaga
Secret crevasses, rocky pitches, forested trails and a town with craft beer nearby. Sounds like the perfect place to spend an afternoon hiking to us.
tuji Bri Botsford thought so too which is why she wanted us to join her on her hike along the Nottawasaga Bluffs portion of the world famous Bruce Trail near Toronto, Ontario. Here's your guide to one of her favourite trails to wander on.
To get to Nottawasaga Bluffs Lookout from Toronto, take the Gardiner Expressway West to the 427 to the 410 North. Continue up Hwy 10 then turn right on Dufferin Road 124 and follow the signs.
The main trail here is the Bruce trail and it's really well marked but there are a whole heap of fun side trails to explore. They're really well marked and worth a wander because they lead to all kinds of interesting rock formations, caverns and creeks. The hike is not strenuous but be sure to wear proper footwear because it can be a bit rocky and steep in places. Oh, and leave the cell phone parked because you're going to want to use your hands - there just might be a little bit of scrambling if you pick the right trail.
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Brewer Pond Culvert to Rideau River
This summer one of our undergraduate students, Millen, monitored the new culvert that connects Brewer Pond to the Rideau River for use by aquatic species. This culvert was installed in 2014 by the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority as part of their pond restoration project to improve connectivity between the river and the pond and avoid the annual fish kills that were occurring due to low oxygen levels. Collecting hours of GoPro footage, Millen was able to capture several species including smallmouth bass, various sunfish, snapping and painted turtles, muskellunge, and beavers using the culvert and the habitat around it. Check out this video for some of the highlights captured over the summer!
This restoration project was made possible by City of Ottawa, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Muskies Canada Inc, Institute of Environmental Science, Carleton University, Minto Homes Ottawa, Richcraft Homes, and the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority.
-- The Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Laboratory at Carleton University
Ontario Bioblitz - Rouge Park 2013
What: A BioBlitz brings together scientists and knowledgeable members of the public to try to identify as many, plant, animal, and fungal species as possible over a 24 hour period, so as to document the biodiversity of a designated area. It also provides a venue for public education about biodiversity and conservation. A visitor area will be organized for the public and families to come and interact with the different organizations involved to learn more about the Bioblitz, the park, and the future national urban park.
When: The Ontario BioBlitz - Rouge Park 2013 will run from noon Saturday, September 14th to noon Sunday, September 15th.
Where: The BioBlitz will be held in Rouge Park, headquarters are at the Rouge Valley Conservation Centre. This park has a variety of habitats including forests, wetlands, river beds, old fields, agricultural lands, and restoration sites which support a diversity of species. Maps of the Park, all pertinent locations and information will be available on-line and at check-in.
Fairy Lake Park and Tom Taylor Trail
Fairy Lake and Fairy Lake Park, on Water Street, serve residents and visitors as an urban oasis in the heart of historic downtown Newmarket. The lake itself was made by Newmarket's earliest settlers to who built a mill in the early 1800s at the foot of Main Street. The 13.4 hectares of parkland, waterways and marshland are also known as Wesley Brooks Conservation Area and includes the dam at the Water Street bridge, which is used for the purpose of flood control.
Bay Circuit Trail Hanson MA: Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area.
Burrage Pond is a property of the Mass. Division or Fisheries and Wildlife obtained and maintained in part from hunting and fishing license revenue.
The Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is 1625 acres of open water, marsh, Atlantic white cedar and red maple swamps and former cranberry bogs located on the border of Hanson and Halifax. It was purchased in 2002 by the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife from the Northland Cranberry Company.
The area is managed for fisheries and wildlife habitats and open space. A management plan to protect, enhance and restore the varied natural habitats on the site is currently
being developed
The area that is now the Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area was originally known as the Great Cedar Swamp. The outlet from Monponsett Pond, known as Stump Brook or Herring Brook, was dammed for water power and created an artificial pond called Stump Pond.
In this area in 1905, industrialist Albert C. Burrage started digging peat for fuel and later developed cranberry bogs. The area was purchased by the United Cape Cod Cranberry Company from Hanson Cedar Company in 1931.
The area was later bought by Cumberland Farms, Inc. who developed some of the wetlands into more cranberry bogs between 1977 and 1990. These actions resulted in an enforcement action by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The current USGS topographic maps and this WMA map still show wetlands in some of the areas that were developed into cranberry bogs. The property was eventually purchased by Northland Cranberry Company and known as Bog 18.
Oshawa Bike trails: Long Bike Ride
Riding my bicycle through the Oshawa Creek path, and part of the waterfront trail that goes through the Second Marsh wetlands. The video was shot with a GoPro Hero 3+.
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Oshawa
Oshawa is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the Lake Ontario shoreline. It lies in Southern Ontario approximately 60 kilometres east of downtown Toronto. It is commonly viewed as the eastern anchor of the Greater Toronto Area and of the Golden Horseshoe. It is the largest municipality in the Regional Municipality of Durham. The name Oshawa originates from the Ojibwa term aazhaway, meaning the crossing place or just (a)cross.
Oshawa’s roots are tied to the automobile industry, specifically the Canadian division of General Motors Company, known as General Motors Canada. Founded in 1876 as the McLaughlin Carriage Company, General Motors of Canada's headquarters are located in the city. The automotive industry was the inspiration for Oshawa's previous mottos: The City That Motovates Canada, and The City in Motion. The lavish home of the carriage company's founder, Parkwood Estate, is a National Historic Site of Canada, and a backdrop favoured by numerous film crews, featured in many movies including Studio 54, Billy Madison, Chicago, and X-Men.
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Gulf Coast Wetlands
Ducks Unlimited CEO Dale hall discusses the importance of Gulf Coast habitats and why they are at risk. Watch more DU TV at ducks.org/dutv.
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Parrott’s Bay Conservation Area | Waterfall HD | 1 Hour
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This video was filmed on a recent hike at Parrot's Bay Conservation Area. Parrott’s Bay is the Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority’s newest conservation area. It has 117 hectares (289 acres) of woods and wetlands with beautiful waterfront views. Parrott’s Bay is a great place to get out and enjoy nature.
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Five Causal Factors: A General Framework for Wetland Science and Restoration
Five Causal Factors: A General Framework for Wetland Science and Restoration, presented by Dr. Paul Keddy, Independent Scholar and 2017 SWS Lifetime Achievement Award Winner.
At one time, lack of information limited our understanding of wetlands, and made restoration difficult. Now it is possible that the opposite is true: we are drowning in data on wetlands, and confused about how to best apply the huge volume of information. People are now, it seems, busily engaged in collecting data that no one will ever use, and writing papers that no one has the time to read.
How to deal with this situation? We cannot organize our information by species, because there are too many of them (ca. 125,000 species in wetlands according to the IUCN). We cannot organize information by geographical or ecological region, because there are too many of those too (867 ecoregions according to WWF). Meanwhile, new data streams into journals. What is to be done?
Perhaps we can learn from others. Consider that physicists can describe most of the universe using only four forces! Without succumbing to physics envy, we could borrow from this approach, and consider causal factors as ecological forces that transcend species and geography. Causal forces might provide us with a set of general principles to organize our existing knowledge, and to guide our attempts to restore wetlands.
I will explore how only five causal forces may account for nearly all the variation we see in and among wetlands: hydrology, fertility, natural disturbance, herbivory, and competition. In fact, the list can be shortened to four if we treat herbivory as just another kind of natural disturbance. These factors operate in all wetlands, be they peat bogs, mangrove swamps or freshwater marshes. The order in which we list them above matters, since hydrology alone likely accounts for half the variation (ca 50 percent), with fertility and natural disturbance next (ca 15 percent). If we can explain 80 percent of the composition and function of wetlands with just three causal factors, that is actually a rather good situation to be in.
Of course, other factors influence wetlands. Near the coast, salinity needs to be added to this list. Other factors can include burial, roads, and coarse woody debris.
In this presentation, I will walk you through this approach in more detail. My intention is to illustrate each of the causal factors with two examples: one that illustrates generality (for scientific organization of our ideas) and the other that illustrates application (for immediate use in wetland conservation or restoration.)
Dr. Paul Keddy has been a biologist, writer and scholar for more than forty years. He was a professor of ecology at three different universities, and now is an Independent Scholar, living on the edge of a large wetland, deep within the deciduous forests of Lanark County in southern Canada. He has written over 100 scholarly papers, and even more essays, most of which can be found at his web site drpaulkeddy.com. He achieved international designation as a Highly Cited Researcher, has awards from the Society of Wetland Scientists and the Environmental Law Institute, and, locally, is designated a Champion for Nature. His best-known books include Wetland Ecology, and Plant Ecology, both of which offer a global perspective on general principles in ecology and their applications to conservation. He also co-edited The World’s Largest Wetlands. In his spare time, has written two self-published natural history guides, one for Lanark County (which won the W.E. Saunders award from Ontario Nature), and one for Louisiana. The focus of his career has been upon the general principles that organize ecological communities, with emphasis upon plants and wetlands. His focus on plants was a rational decision -- the inescapable fact that more than 90 percent of the biomass on Earth is comprised of plants. He has a particular soft spot for turtles, frogs and alligators, but says that getting the vegetation right is essential to provide habitat for such species. He thinks that science should be used to solve problems in the real world, and hence has spent many hours advising on wetland conservation in areas including Nova Scotia, the Great Lakes watershed, and coastal Louisiana, with lesser forays including San Francisco Bay and the Everglades. He has served organizations including the National Science Foundation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, World Wildlife Fund, and The Nature Conservancy. He also puts his money where his mouth is – over 40 years he has slowly bought nearly a square mile of forest and wetland in Lanark County, habitat which has now been donated to the local land trust as a nature sanctuary. He continues to write and lecture. His latest book is a new edition of Plant Ecology. His lectures have included Washington, Toronto, Madrid, Granada, and Lyon — as well as Perth, Almonte and Lanark Village.
Amherst Island 2018
South Shore Road, Sand Beach Wetlands Conservation Area, Back Beach Park, Lane's End Park
GoPro biking in Oshawa - Harmony Valley
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A little peek into the local options for biking in town. This is a little run in the Harmony Valley Conservation Area. Shot on July 30/11.
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Bull Trail Running Timelapse - Lethbridge, Alberta
This 9.31KM running route in Lethbridge, Alberta is where to find natural trails, man made trails, and urban pathways. It is a mostly flat running route with one large 1500 meter uphill section. Some of the notable route sections encountered include:
Bull Trail Park
Located on the west side of Lethbridge just off of whoop-up drive is Bull Trail park, which features both man made and natural trails leading from the upper coulees of the west side that stretch down into the river valley. The trail taken in this route also runs under the massive iron rail bridge that gives Lethbridge its name. Large sections of these trails were under construction the year that this timelapse was taken.
Elizabeth Hall Wetlands
The flat section of this trail run in the river valley runs through the Elizabeth Hall Wetlands nature preserve. The red shale trail runs through a large pond teaming with wildlife such as ducks, beavers, geese, and garter snakes. This trail loops around to other side of the pond (not pictured) where the Bridge Valley Golf course is situated.
Bridge Drive West
The largest paved ascent within Lethbridge at the time of this video, it is one large 1500 meter long asphalt roadside trail that takes several twists and turns before reaching the west side proper.
University Drive West
This urban pathway loops back towards whoop up drive and has several intersections with lights that may interrupt your run. This path also links up to the 30km Coal Banks Trail which you can follow the long way around to add another 10km to your distance before returning to the starting location.
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Heard Island and McDonald Islands | Wikipedia audio article
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The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (abbreviated as HIMI) is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall size is 372 square kilometres (144 sq mi) in area and it has 101.9 km (63 mi) of coastline. Discovered in the mid-19th century, the islands have been an Australian territory since 1947 and contain the country's only two active volcanoes. The summit of one, Mawson Peak, is higher than any mountain on the Australian mainland. The islands lie on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Indian Ocean.
The islands are among the most remote places on Earth: They are located approximately 4,099 km (2,547 mi) southwest of Perth, 3,845 km (2,389 mi) southwest of Cape Leeuwin, Australia, 4,200 km (2,600 mi) southeast of South Africa, 3,830 km (2,380 mi) southeast of Madagascar, 1,630 km (1,010 mi) north of Antarctica, and 450 km (280 mi) southeast of the Kerguelen Islands. The islands are currently uninhabited.
Ottawa | Wikipedia audio article
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Ottawa ( (listen), ; French pronunciation: [ɔtawa]) is the capital city of Canada. It stands on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec; the two form the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). As of 2016, Ottawa had a city population of 964,743 and a metropolitan population of 1,323,783 making it the fourth-largest city and the fifth-largest CMA in Canada.
Founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as Ottawa in 1855, the city has evolved into the political centre of Canada. Its original boundaries were expanded through numerous annexations and were ultimately replaced by a new city incorporation and amalgamation in 2001 which significantly increased its land area. The city name Ottawa was chosen in reference to the Ottawa River, the name of which is derived from the Algonquin Odawa, meaning to trade.Ottawa has the most educated population among Canadian cities and is home to a number of post-secondary, research, and cultural institutions, including the National Arts Centre, the National Gallery, and numerous national museums. Ottawa has the highest standard of living in the nation and low unemployment.