Halifax and Kejimkujik
Saturday found us heading to Halifax, the largest city in Nova Scotia. Halifax is a mixture of old architecture and new, modern buildings. The Citadel, a fort built into the ground, was constructed to defend the city against invading forces. We were able to do a little souvenir shopping and sample some tasty seafood.
Today, we visited Kejimkujik National Park in the interior of Nova Scotia. It is a very beautiful area with a lot of hiking trails and lakes for canoeing. There are a lot of old growth eastern hemlock trees that we do not see much in Minnesota. We also did some deer dropping surveys to compare deer densities with our earlier site. Tomorrow we'll go to another research site and begin trapping and surveying mammals there. One of the most interesting things is that the capture/mark/release method that we are using to calculate small mammal densities is the same method that we've been modeling in class during our population unit.
Nova Scotia fact of the day: there are 938,310 people living in Nova Scotia (2008) and over a third of them live in Halifax.
posted by Kurt Long Voelkner @ 5:39 PM
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Good morning from Bemidji Middle School Zeta Pod! The students seem to be a little tired today from the weekend. I am not sure if it is that they danced to hard last Friday at the dance or if they are still getting over the Twins Sweep of the Angels. Either way here are a couple of questions from second and third hour.
1.) What is the average temp. during this time of the year?
2.) What kind of seafood did you eat on Saturday? Mr. Sattler really would have liked to be there for that.
Thanks again and one more week, enjoy it!
Zeta Morning Classes.
Here are the questions from the last two hours of the day.
1.) Did you have a chance to ride of the tugboat?
2.) Have you had the chance to see any big animals like a moose?
3.) Have you had a chance to go to any of the other provinces?
4.) Are you going to bring back that yellow hat?
Thanks a lot!
Fifth and Sixth Hour!
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