All about Red Deer- Bower Ponds | theWanderers-notebook
What’s up fellow Wanderers and welcome back to the All about Red Deer video series with today’s video featuring Bower Ponds! The origins of Bower Ponds go back to the turn of the last century. In 1906, the Great West Lumber Company created a large new sawmill on the northside of the Red Deer River. The flat next to the river was dredged to create a large millpond. In June 1915, an enormous flood caused significant damage to the millpond. The following year, the Great West Lumber mill closed. During the 1930s, Caleb ‘Cap’ Card established a small sawmill on the site of the old Great West operation. He created a small dam between the old millpond and the river, the Card sawmill closed in 1941 following a fire. The site fell into disuse and the old millpond began to silt in once more and eventually the site became the haven of Bower Ponds that it has become in the years since being used as both a millpond and a garbage dump. What can you do at Bower Ponds you may be asking? Well in the summer and spring months you can rent Paddleboats, kayaks and canoes are available for rental in the warm summer months. Meanwhile in the winter months you can rent Skate aids, helmets, and skate rentals of various sizes are available to get outdoors and enjoy a winter day. This multi-season park offers almost two kilometres of paved trail around the interconnected ponds. Branching off from the ponds, paved trails lead to Great West Adventure Park - BMX and Lions Campground to the north and Heritage Ranch to the south. Through the Waskasoo Park Trail System, it is possible to connect with the entire city. Fishing is also available at the ponds which was originally stocked with rainbow trout but after a flood in 2005, more fish species were naturally deposited into the pond. Some of these species, like Pike, are not friendly to trout and as a result the Rainbow Trout population is not able to thrive at the ponds anymore, so Alberta Sustainable Resource Development no longer stocks the pond with Rainbow Trout. Fishing at Bower Ponds is permitted. However, all Alberta province wide regulations involving sport-fishing must be adhered to. Well guys and gals I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please smash that like button, if you are new please subscribe as the channel is now on the road to 1,000 subscribers and also if you could donate to my PayPal (link in the description) so I can afford a video camera that would be fantastic! Wanderer out and have a “wanderful” day!
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Secret Alberta: Red Deer Chronicles
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Pond study at McKenzie Trail, Red Deer
Grade 5 and 6 students from Koinonia Christian School in Red Deer got a chance to get the feet wet in the name of science on Friday as they took part in a pond study at McKenzie Trail Recreation Area. Waskasoo Parks Interpreter Caryn Ouwehand lead the group through the program and helped the students learn about the importance of healthy wetlands.
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Bower Ponds Park in Red Deer, Alberta
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Red Deer - Canyon Ski Resort - Trail 18
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Red Deer - Canyon Ski Resort - Trail 18
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WILD HORSES PLUS NATIVE AMERICAN POW-WOW SITES IN ALBERTA
We spot wild horses on a forestry road in the Alberta Rockies and come across a ceremonial Pow-Wow site near Cline River Alberta. Native American Pow Wow site begins around 2:38 .
Red Deer, Alberta
Red Deer is a city in Central Alberta, Canada. It is located near the midpoint of the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor and is surrounded by Red Deer County. It is Alberta's third-most-populous city – after Calgary and Edmonton. The city is located in aspen parkland, a region of rolling hills that is home to oil, grain, and cattle production. It is a centre for oil and agriculture distribution, and the surrounding region is a major centre for petrochemical production. According to its 2015 municipal census, Red Deer's population is now 100,807.
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Canoeing Through Red Deer - time lapse
This video is of a quick canoe trip through the City of Red Deer. We launched our canoes at the boat launch by Kiwanis Pincic Park near the Red Deer Golf and Country Club and followed the river to the North edge of Three Mile Bend Park.
The river goes past many of the City's Parks including Bower Ponds, the BMX track, Lions Campground McKenzie Trails and Three Mile Bend. There are a number of trails that link these and other parks together throughout the city.
Taking this canoe trip on a nice fall day was a great way to view the city from another perspective.
I shot this video by fastening my camera to the bow of a canoe and hoping for the best. The result is a bit shakey in places, partly due to some choppy water and partly due to my paddling.
When canoeing I had the song Proud Mary by Creedence Clearwater Revival stuck in my head so I used it as well as some othe CCR tunes for the background music.
This was filmed on October 2, 2010 at 10x real time.
Driving in the dark downtown red Deer AB
MNP Canada Games Torch Relay Arrives at RDC
The 2019 Canada Winter Games kicked off at Red Deer College with the MNP Canada Games Torch Relay stopping through RDC's campus on February 15, 2019.
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Emerson Lake Fishing
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Spring Snow Storm and Trail Cleanup - time lapse
On May 4, 2010 we had a nasty spring snow storm. We received around 10cm of snow accompanied by winds gusting to about 90km per hour.
Spring snow storms are not unusual in this area. We generally get something like this around this time of the year, but it still comes as a bit of a shock when we are just beginning to see the leaves come out on the trees.
As with any weather system that brings strong winds there is the inevitable tree damage that has to be dealt with. This storm was no exeception. Our first mission the day after was to deal with a tree that had fallen across one of our trails in the city. It was located on the Pines Escarpment Trail; one of my favorite trails.
This was filmed (largely) on May 5, 2010 at 5x real time.
Turning a tree into a chair - time lapse
This tree had to be taken down because a beaver chewed most of its base. Since the tree was right next a public trail, and it was a windy day, it had to come down as soon as it was discovered.
Special thanks goes to Jill G. for filming the chair making portion of the video. Despite the fact that it was filmed in time lapse it's remarkably steady footage for a hand held camera.
This was filmed on Oct. 8, 2008 at 20x real time.
Beaver Dam Blues - time lapse
In the city parks, beavers can present a problem. Since there are few, if any, predators to keep the beaver`s population in check their numbers can get quite high. As a result, they can do a great deal of damage to trees by either bringing them down or by flooding the areas in which the trees grow.
One beaver dam was causing enough of a problem that it threatened a significant portion of a forest. An experiment was attempted which allowed the beaver to remain and protect the trees from flooding. The idea was to install pipes into the dam which would act as overflows preventing the water behind the dam from getting too high and drowning the tree roots. This involved tearing apart a portion of the dam by hand, installing the pipes, and allowing the beaver to repair its dam.
So one afternoon three of us, Ken L., Josh K. and I, set to work taking the dam apart by hand. Once the we dug down enough we were able to install the pipes and attach them to stakes set into the mud behind the dam.
In the photos included from a few days after the installation, one can see that the beaver began to repair the dam. So the technique appeared as if it was effective. However, shortly after the pictures were taken, a heavy rainshower burst the dam altogether. We will probably try the technique again this coming summer.