by Sandy Boeckh | Jun 30, 2015 | Environment, Forest & Wildlife
There are concerns over a range of invasive forest pests threatening our local forests including the emerald ash borer, Asian long-horned beetle, beech bark disease, and hemlock wooly adelgid. This report provides an overview of forest pests in the Parry Sound-Muskoka...
by Shelagh Grant | Apr 22, 2015 | Environment, Forest & Wildlife, Invasive Species, Pine Sawfly
Here is a link to the Forest Health Report included in the 2015 yearbook. Forest Health 2015
by Sandy Boeckh | Feb 22, 2015 | Invasive Species, Phragmites
I wrote an article warning of the spread of this invasive terrestrial in the 2012 yearbook. That article was a bit premature but this year, we need to watch out for and eradicate any new stands of this nasty reed in our area. This will help to reduce the number of new...
by Dan Stuckey | Jan 27, 2015 | Fish & Fish Biology
We would like to point out one interesting fact a year so we all can become better sportsmen. Here is our 2015 interesting fact from the 2015 Regulations: “It is illegal to attempt to catch fish for which the season is closed, even if you are going to release them....
by Jan Stuckey | Jan 27, 2015 | Fish & Fish Biology
Rob Ludwig of Norwalk, Ohio recently caught a Walleye with an MNR tag on it. In contacting the MNR we got this answer on what to do. “ Over the next two years there will be a substantial number of tagged walleye in the area. We have developed a process for...
by David Anderson | Jan 27, 2015 | Fish & Fish Biology
The round goby is a small, bottom-dwelling invasive fish. Native to the Black and Caspian seas in Eastern Europe, it was first found in North America in 1990 in the St. Clair River north of Windsor, Ontario. Researchers believe the fish was brought to North America in...
