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Where did Ojibwe get canoe birchbark?
There are moments in winter that are just spectacular When we came to Thunder Bay in 1979 one of the first things I learned was that Nipigon...
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The flat, soft needles of a balsam fir Spruce needles are like a stiff bottle brush I often hear Boreal newcomers mistake balsams an... -
EOSDIS Worldview Sorry folks, I was out of the country for nearly a month and was not able to update ice-out conditions on Red Lake. The l... -
EOSDIS Worldview pic today, May 6. Ice mostly gone Brian was able to fly from the river, over the ice and into open water in the narrows a...
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Dan, wood ticks are better than the deer ticks as they don't carry Lyme disease. It appears to me that picture is of a wood tick and I've read that they are expanding north in Ontario due to mild winters and are thought to get there by migratory birds. I would rather fight off hungry mosquitos and black flys any day vs finding a tick on me.
Mike S
Speaking of whitetail deer, Dan I saw 4 or 5 last year on an island a few miles from the narrows.
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