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Ear Falls


Danielle worked on the Ear Falls marten project in the summer of 2005, and I joined them for the final three weeks of the season
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Falls on the way from Winnipeg

The quads and boat for the project.

The front yard of Danielle's house for the summer... yes, it's a field house!

Fishing near Wenesaga bridge

Fireweed along one of the telemetry roads.

An old wolverine live-trap from a now discontinued research project

Our personal campground on Woman River

Taking it easy!

A view from our tent

Quad telemetry on Tom's Trail

Aerobus road

The field truck loaded up with the quad for telemetry

Utility right-of-way.  We passed this spot 8 times on our "veg trip"

Mary Lake; our home for four days

Mary Lake

Danielle navigating between two mud holes

Wood frog

Veg takes on a new meaning in "black spruce / moss".... the dreaded soil sample

A deer mouse that ventured within ten feet one evening.

Modern ruins: the remains of the Griffith Mines

The mines...

Sunset over Lac Seul at Julie's cabin

Julie's husband pays a visit on his float plane

Sunset the second night on the lake.


Sunset the second night out

Still the second night!

Beside an old clear cut on a logging road while doing telemetry


Black Spruce/Feather Moss; a common habitat in northern Ontario.

Clear cut

An abandoned quartz quarry

A clear cut with fireweed, one of the first plants to take over.

Pakwash provincial park

Danielle holding the first marten we trapped (tranquilized of course!)

Josh putting the marten back in the trap to recuperate from the drugs

A marten tentatively leaving the trap

Indian Pipe, a parasitic forest plant

Grass of Parnassus

Danielle tranquilizing a captured marten while Julie secures the holding cone.

A Spruce Grouse that landed nearby while processing one of the martens

Julie props of the door to the trap for the marten to leave after being processed

A female marten gets ready to leave the trap

... still not ready ...

Finally taking off...

A red fox with a lacerated nose eats camping leftovers.

After a brief but torrential rainfall, we were welcomed by an intense double rainbow with both sides touching the lake we were fishing in!

Danielle holding her catch

Our last day trip to Pakwash

The field crew gathers around the fire early in the season

Danielle playing guitar at Julie's cabin in May

Danielle painting

Danielle's painting

The scene Danielle was painting