.Ear Falls
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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 |