next message in archive
no next message in thread
previous message in archive
previous message in thread
Index of Subjects
margin-left: 0px; ">H
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0069_01CCF027.3CDBF2A0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi Nancy, all others;
the "Gaspereau Canyon" sure is a wonderful place to visit. It must =
have been even more grand when the entire river flowed through it, =
before the hydro dams were built. Now most of the river's water flows =
from Gaspereau Lake to the White Rock Headpond via a different route.=20
Most of the land in the area is privately owned, but a 33 hectare =
parcel of Crown land bordering the river (Patch 158 - Gaspereau River) =
is being considered for protection as part of the "12 Percent by 2015" =
initiative.
Dusan Soudek
----- Original Message -----=20
From: James W. Wolford=20
To: NatureNS ; Mike Dadswell=20
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 7:13 PM
Subject: [NatureNS] re fish fauna of Gaspereau River -- path; little =
fish
I don't think anyone has mentioned suckers among the fish fauna, and =
perhaps other "minnows" related to the lake chub? I also wonder if =
brown bullhead catfish might occur in some backwater pools? And three =
cheers for the volunteers who have worked on that popular trail over the =
decades, for all of us recreators. And doesn't Nova Scotia Power own =
the land where the trail runs? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Rick Whitman <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com>
Date: February 20, 2012 2:10:55 PM AST
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Gaspereau River path; little fish
Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Hi Nancy,
The trail is the remains of a "river road" that was built in the =
first
decade of the last century i.e. 1907 +/-. It was an early stage of a
pulp mill that was never built. The project likely failed in the
financial crash of '07. See "My White Rock" by Bert Young for more
details. In the past 3 decades the trail has been maintained by a
number of individuals generally working independently. The trail is
not 11 km long. It only takes one hour of brisk walking to hike to =
the
end on that side so it's 3-4 km. At that point you have to ford the
river to continue, wisely done only in summer. There is a =
quasi-trail
somewhat further on the other side but it's unused & barely visible.
It only goes another 1-2 km.
I know 3 individuals who have walked the entire Gaspereau River from
Rte 12 to White Rock.
This is a healthy river. There are fish of all ages in it 12 months =
of
the year. There are trout, salmon (placed by NSDNR staff from =
hatchery
fish), lake chub, gaspereau, and sticklebacks and perhaps others.
Trout & sticklebacks are easily seen. Trout of that size are quite
young while sticklebacks would be adults.
Cheers,
Rick Whitman
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Nancy Roberts
<nancy.roberts@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
Hello,,
Yesterday we walked a trail along the Gaspereau. It starts at a =
bridge I
believe near White Rock and runs upstream. I'm told it goes about =
11 km and
then stops. I've never met anyone who has been to the end.
One question: who made this lovely trail and who maintains it? One =
brief
place on a steep slope has a drystone wall supporting the low =
side, so it
was a fair amount of trouble at some point.
Second question: I left the trail to peer into a shallow side =
channel,
nearly a stillwater, very clear. It had a clean stone bottom, so =
there must
be more current when the water is a bit higher. It also appeared =
to have
more sun than average, since it was completely ice-free, while the =
river was
about 80% covered. I was surprised to see a small school of fish, =
1" =96 1
1/4" long. "Just plain fish," the colour of the bottom, visible =
more easily
by their black shadows on the bottom than by their corpuses. Would =
they have
hatched this year? overwintered?
Cheers,
Nancy
Nancy Roberts Design
Celebrating 19 years of making you look GOOD
Dartmouth, NS B2Y 2X6
902 461-9488
--=20
Rick Whitman
------=_NextPart_000_0069_01CCF027.3CDBF2A0
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dwindows-1252" =
http-equiv=3DContent-Type>
<META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.19154">
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY=20
style=3D"WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; =
-webkit-line-break: after-white-space"=20
bgColor=3D#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT size=3D4>Hi Nancy, all others;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D4> the "Gaspereau Canyon" sure is a =
wonderful place=20
to visit. It must have been even more grand when the entire river flowed =
through=20
it, before the hydro dams were built. Now most of the river's=20
water flows from Gaspereau Lake to the White Rock Headpond via a=20
different route. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D4> Most of the land in the area is =
privately owned,=20
but a 33 hectare parcel of Crown land bordering the river (Patch =
158 -=20
Gaspereau River) is being considered for protection as part of the =
"12=20
Percent by 2015" initiative.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D4> Dusan Soudek</FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE=20
style=3D"BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; =
PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV=20
style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>=20
<A title=3Djimwolford@eastlink.ca =
href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">James W.=20
Wolford</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=3Dnaturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20
href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">NatureNS</A> ; <A=20
title=3Dmike.dadswell@acadiau.ca =
href=3D"mailto:mike.dadswell@acadiau.ca">Mike=20
Dadswell</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 20, 2012 =
7:13=20
PM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [NatureNS] re fish =
fauna of=20
Gaspereau River -- path; little fish</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I don't think anyone has mentioned suckers among the =
fish=20
fauna, and perhaps other "minnows" related to the lake chub? I =
also=20
wonder if brown bullhead catfish might occur in some backwater pools?=20
And three cheers for the volunteers who have worked on that =
popular=20
trail over the decades, for all of us recreators. And doesn't =
Nova=20
Scotia Power own the land where the trail runs? Cheers from Jim =
in=20
Wolfville.<BR>
<DIV><BR>
<DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR =
class=3DApple-interchange-newline>
<BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite">
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style=3D"FONT: 12px Helvetica; =
COLOR: #000000"=20
color=3D#000000 size=3D3 face=3DHelvetica><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT=20
style=3D"FONT: 12px Helvetica" size=3D3 face=3DHelvetica>Rick =
Whitman <<A=20
=
href=3D"mailto:dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com">dendroica.caerulescens@g=
mail.com</A>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style=3D"FONT: 12px Helvetica; =
COLOR: #000000"=20
color=3D#000000 size=3D3 face=3DHelvetica><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT=20
style=3D"FONT: 12px Helvetica" size=3D3 face=3DHelvetica>February =
20, 2012 2:10:55=20
PM AST</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style=3D"FONT: 12px Helvetica; =
COLOR: #000000"=20
color=3D#000000 size=3D3 face=3DHelvetica><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT=20
style=3D"FONT: 12px Helvetica" size=3D3 face=3DHelvetica><A=20
=
href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</A></FONT=
></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style=3D"FONT: 12px Helvetica; =
COLOR: #000000"=20
color=3D#000000 size=3D3 face=3DHelvetica><B>Subject: =
</B></FONT><FONT=20
style=3D"FONT: 12px Helvetica" size=3D3 face=3DHelvetica><B>Re: =
[NatureNS]=20
Gaspereau River path; little fish</B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style=3D"FONT: 12px Helvetica; =
COLOR: #000000"=20
color=3D#000000 size=3D3 face=3DHelvetica><B>Reply-To: =
</B></FONT><FONT=20
style=3D"FONT: 12px Helvetica" size=3D3 face=3DHelvetica><A=20
=
href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</A></FONT=
></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Hi Nancy,</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">The trail is the remains of a "river =
road" that was=20
built in the first</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">decade of the last century i.e. 1907 +/-. =
It was an=20
early stage of a</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">pulp mill that was never built. The =
project likely=20
failed in the</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">financial crash of '07. See "My White =
Rock" by Bert=20
Young for more</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">details. In the past 3 decades the trail =
has been=20
maintained by a</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">number of individuals generally working=20
independently. The trail is</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">not 11 km long. It only takes one hour of =
brisk=20
walking to hike to the</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">end on that side so it's 3-4 km. At that =
point you=20
have to ford the</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">river to continue, wisely done only in =
summer.=20
There is a quasi-trail</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">somewhat further on the other side but =
it's unused=20
& barely visible.</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">It only goes another 1-2 km.</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">I know 3 individuals who have walked the =
entire=20
Gaspereau River from</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Rte 12 to White Rock.</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">This is a healthy river. There are fish =
of all ages=20
in it 12 months of</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">the year. There are trout, salmon (placed =
by NSDNR=20
staff from hatchery</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">fish), lake chub, gaspereau, and =
sticklebacks and=20
perhaps others.</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Trout & sticklebacks are easily seen. =
Trout of=20
that size are quite</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">young while sticklebacks would be =
adults.</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Cheers,</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Rick Whitman</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Nancy=20
Roberts</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px"><<A=20
=
href=3D"mailto:nancy.roberts@ns.sympatico.ca">nancy.roberts@ns.sympatico.=
ca</A>>=20
wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite">
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Hello,,</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Yesterday we walked a trail along the =
Gaspereau.=20
It starts at a bridge I</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">believe near White Rock and runs =
upstream. I'm=20
told it goes about 11 km and</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">then stops. I've never met anyone who =
has been to=20
the end.</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">One question: who made this lovely =
trail and who=20
maintains it? One brief</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">place on a steep slope has a drystone =
wall=20
supporting the low side, so it</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">was a fair amount of trouble at some =
point.</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Second question: I left the trail to =
peer into a=20
shallow side channel,</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">nearly a stillwater, very clear. It had =
a clean=20
stone bottom, so there must</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">be more current when the water is a bit =
higher.=20
It also appeared to have</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">more sun than average, since it was =
completely=20
ice-free, while the river was</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">about 80% covered. I was surprised to =
see a small=20
school of fish, 1" =96 1</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">1/4" long. "Just plain fish," the =
colour of the=20
bottom, visible more easily</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">by their black shadows on the bottom =
than by=20
their corpuses. Would they have</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">hatched this year? overwintered?</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Cheers,</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Nancy</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Nancy Roberts Design</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Celebrating 19 years of making you look =
GOOD</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Dartmouth, NS B2Y 2X6</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">902 461-9488</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: =
14px"><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px; MIN-HEIGHT: 14px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">--<SPAN=20
class=3DApple-converted-space> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Rick=20
Whitman</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
------=_NextPart_000_0069_01CCF027.3CDBF2A0--
next message in archive
no next message in thread
previous message in archive
previous message in thread
Index of Subjects