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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>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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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 [...]]]></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 celebrated its 100th Anniversary last year. 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 [...]]]></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[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 perfectly circular lake was below [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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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		<title>Lichens: Unusual Partners</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not hard to find lichens, you simply have to look where other forms of life find the conditions too harsh. Sheer cliff walls, the surface of large boulders, tree trunks, the branches of living and dead trees, and the shaded acidic soils under pines, are all places where lichens thrive. They have even been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ice Age Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Quetico Park contains a wide variety of different habitats: large stands of mature red and white pine, even-aged jack pine and poplar stands (the result of recent fires), wet areas with an understory of moss and overstory of black spruce, and open bogs composed of leather leaf, sphagnum moss and orchids. These and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quetico&#8217;s First Explorers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ At a special moment during a canoe trip in Quetico, you may have felt that you had arrived in a place where few, if any, people had ever been. It may have been at the end of an overgrown, seldom used portage, on the top of a ridge overlooking a spruce bog, or even in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return of the XY Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The XY Company was a Canadian fur trade enterprise that was formed in 1797 by a group of men that were disenchanted with Simon McTavish&#8217;s leadership of the NorthWest Company. They were in direct and sometimes rabid competition with the NorthWest Company who labeled their packs NW; hence the new group called themselves by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chuck Farnum: Bushwhacker Extraordinaire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2004 21:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people go into Quetico to fish, some to find solitude and others for the scenery and wildlife. Others, however, like Charles &#8220;Chuck&#8221; Farnum and his extended family, are &#8220;bush-whackers&#8221; extraordinaire; they seek out and explore places that are seldom visited. If Chuck Farnum, the clan elder, wouldn&#8217;t have been become a doctor, he would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Muir: Boundary Waters Botanist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2004 01:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 1971 to 1975, Bill Muir was the staff botanist at the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) Wilderness Field Station on Basswood Lake. For those five summers, Muir, a Biology professor at Carleton College, taught a field course in botany. During this time he travelled over two thousand miles with his students in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return to the Powell Homestead on Saganagons Lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2004 01:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few summers ago, Betty Powell Skoog returned to the homestead on Saganagons Lake in Quetico Park where she was born and spent the first fifteen years of her life. This beautiful site on the eastern end of the lake was home to three generations of Powells. During their half-century on Saganagons, five children were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Raven&#8217;s Knowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I love watching ravens fly. They seem to delight in performing a wide variety of aerial acrobatics. Other birds seem to fly primarily for practical purposes: searching for food, avoiding predators, or simply moving from place to place. Ravens, however, often seem to cavort in the air with joyous abandon simply because it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pukak: Life Under The Snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winter is the time of year when everything seems to slow down in the Boundary Waters area. It is much quieter in the woods since most of the birds have left for warmer climates where food is more abundant in the winter. Animals o various sizes, from black bears to least chipmunks, have retreated to [...]]]></description>
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