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	<description>Photography and History of Quetico Park and Thunder Bay Area</description>
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		<title>Shirley Peruniak: Quetico Park Naturalist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published June 10th 2004, revised January 25, 2010
With the opening of Highway 11 from Thunder Bay to Atikokan in 1956, there was, for the first time, road access to the northern part of Quetico Park. One of the people who drove that road and started a canoe trip at French Lake that summer was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quetico Park: Twelve Thousand Years in the Making – A Century of Protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quetico is celebrating its 100th Anniversary. Quetico was originally set aside in 1909 as the Quetico Forest Reserve, became a Provincial Park in 1913, logging was banned in 1972 and it was declared a wilderness park in 1978. Quetico is characterized by towering cliffs, rocky islands and sandy beaches in a watery landscape of clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excerpts from chapters in Quetico: Near to Natures Heart.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prelude (excerpt)
QUETICO — ONE HUNDRETH ANNIVERSARY
OF A “MAGIC LAND”
In 1909, Ernest Oberholtzer, a pioneer in preserving the Quetico-Superior region, made a canoe trip in Quetico with his Ojibwa friend Billy Magee. They saw moose almost every day; they were intrigued by the pictographs they encountered; they marvelled at the beauty of Rebecca Falls and Sue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob &amp; Leone Hayes: A Quetico Romance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 1942, sixteen-year-old Bob Hayes landed at the Bayley Bay Ranger station on Basswood Lake. Years later, he remembers thinking that &#8220;I thought I was descending into the ultimate paradise.&#8221; Since he was coming from Beaverhouse Lake, where he had worked on a walleye spawning crew, he already knew that working and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robinsons of Souris River Canoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s to You, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson
Most people come to Atikokan, Ontario to paddle canoes; the Robinson&#8217;s, however, came to Atikokan to build them. They also happily put their own canoes to use by paddling the numerous lakes, rivers and creeks that are found on this portion of the Canadian shield.  Atikokan is justifiably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joe and Vera Meany: 26 Years in Quetico</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe and Vera Meany are now retired in their home along a river about 50 km from Atikokan. For 26 years, from 1971 to 1996, they were the Quetico Park Rangers at the Ranger Station on Lac la Croix. During their years in Quetico, the Meanys built a strong reputation as extremely competent and helpful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Devil&#8217;s Crater &#8211; Portal to the Past</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jon Nelson &#38; Leif Nelson
My first glimpse of Devil&#8217;s Crater took my breath away. I was shooting aerial photographs of outpost cabins for a local outfitter when the pilot and I decided to take a detour to look at an unusually shaped lake off in the distance. In a few minutes, the small, almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Under the Ice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the winter, all life under the ice has to adapt to conditions that are strikingly different from those found in the summer. In the summer, our lakes are layered with the warmest water on top and the coldest on the bottom. As you descend, the temperature slowly decreases until you reach the thermocline where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapids and Waterfalls in Quetico</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The high number of rapids and waterfalls in Quetico Park is primarily due to the large amount of exposed bedrock combined with numerous creeks and rivers. Three images of these rapids and waterfalls are shown below.

A Gallery of images of waterfalls and rapids in northwestern Ontario is found in the Photography section. A number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paddling to the McNiece Lake Pines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first came to the Boundary Waters I was mainly interested in going canoeing and seeing a new landscape very different from the farm country where I grew up in southern Minnesota. I kept coming back primarily because of the wildlife and it is still thrilling to see moose, wolves, otters, bald eagles, ospreys [...]]]></description>
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