McCrae Lake Nature Reserve on eastern Georgian Bay is an easily reached (and free) year-round hiking opportunity. The trail head is just off the 400, accessed from Crooked Bay Rd. I prefer to use it in the winter. I was there earlier this month, checking out the trail conditions. There’s a good guide to the …
This site in 2020
I set up Wild Great Lakes in 2019 but unfortunately had little time to devote to it. I’m hoping 2020 is more productive for content. Bear with me.
O’Donnell Point light
O’Donnell Point light on eastern Georgian Bay. It’s the heart of one of my favourite areas to poke around.
The other bits of Georgian Bay Islands
Most visitors to Georgian Bay Islands National Park know it from its single largest chunk, Beausoleil Island, and for good reasons: it's where the campsites, cabins and other shelters, hiking and biking trails, and docks for transient boaters are. But the park's holdings extend much farther than that. The park's website has nothing to say …
Feds warned Ontario about planned cormorant hunt
More digging from the CBC has revealed that Canada's Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change warned Ontario's Ford government that its proposal to allow a mass slaughter of cormorants under the guise of a hunting season could cause hunters to run afoul of the law. Cormorants routinely congregate with birds protected under migratory convention …
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Peaceful Parks Coalition on Ontario’s cormorant hunt plan
Just received an email blast from Peaceful Parks Coalition, providing a link to the CBC story on government scientists' opposition to their own government's proposed cormorant hunt. (see my earlier post). PPC notes that the proposed hunt was supposed to begin today, and says (in part): The season was scheduled to open today March 15 …
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Open-water cage aquaculture study gives hope to Great Lakes industry
The results are not a slam-dunk endorsement, but the results of a multi-year study of cage aquaculture in Canada's Experimental Lakes Area suggests the practice may significantly benefit wild lake trout and prey species like minnows. But there were also negatives, as I report in this news item for Cottage Life.
