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katemacquarrie22
Nov 203 min read
British Soldier Lichen
PEI’s autumn leaves are gone, but there are still bright splashes of colour in the landscape. One of my favourites is the tiny but...
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katemacquarrie22
Feb 283 min read
Offshore Islands
Sites where human and natural histories meet are always interesting, and PEI’s offshore islands are great examples of this. They tell...
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katemacquarrie22
Jan 173 min read
Black Banks
I describe natural history as the story our land tells about itself. PEI’s bogs tell many interesting stories, and at Black Banks the...
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katemacquarrie22
Aug 13, 20232 min read
Portage Lake
Welcome back to my PEI Habitat Highlights series. You can find previous editions – including Grey Dunes, Krummholtz Forest, Peat Bogs,...
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katemacquarrie22
Jan 5, 20233 min read
Permian to Present 7: Post-glacial plants and people
So far in ‘PEI: Permian to Present’, we’ve explored the formation of the Island’s sedimentary sandstone bedrock, the fossils that can be...
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katemacquarrie22
Dec 28, 20222 min read
Peat Bogs
Peat Bogs (Photo 1) are one of the oldest habitats on the Island; we can trace their beginnings back to the end of the last Ice Age more...
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katemacquarrie22
Dec 28, 20222 min read
Black Marsh, North Cape
I have a post specifically on Peat Bogs, but there is one very special Island bog that merits its own post: Black Marsh at North Cape....
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katemacquarrie22
Dec 26, 20222 min read
Permian to Present 6: Metamorphic rock
So far in ‘PEI: Permian to Present’ we’ve looked at the Island’s sedimentary sandstone, our only igneous outcrop, some of our common...
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katemacquarrie22
Dec 26, 20222 min read
Permian to Present 5: Post-glacial evidence
In the last edition of ‘PEI: Permian to Present’ we looked at the Island during and just after the last ice age. Today, let’s examine a...
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katemacquarrie22
Dec 26, 20222 min read
Permain to Present 4: Ice Age
For this fourth edition of ‘PEI: Permian to Present’, let’s jump ahead about 246.9 million years to the time of the last Ice Age. Our...
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