Category: Canadian National Parks
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Elevated Collecting
Hello to all the BIObus followers, we have some interesting things for everyone to read abut this week! We have been fortunate enough to spend over a week in the great light North, Kluane National Park. It is quite the experience here to be walking around at 12 am and it is still light out,…
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Bearing Down on the Yukon
Hello again readers, it’s me, Martin the BIObus crew member. Remember how last time I talked about Smithers? Well this time I’m going to give a rundown of what we’ve been doing since then like the drive up to the Yukon and our little visit to Whitehorse and a bit about bear safety.
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Bark Beetles and Wildfires
Hello again! After taking down all our traps in Burnt Cabin Bog Ecological Reserve, we packed up and drove for two days up to Kluane National Park and Reserve. While the drive was long there was plenty of scenery to see along the way. While driving North on the Stewart-Cassiar highway, we passed through a…
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Natural treasures of the west coast of Vancouver Island
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve of Canada is a thin strip of land along the southwestern coast of Vancouver Island and is characterized by rugged coasts and lush temperate rainforests. Imagine white sandy coastlines, eagles soaring overhead, ferns, and cushions of moss hanging from the branches of towering Sitka spruce, and the ocean stretching off…
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A Trip Well Worth Taking
Hello faithful readers, I’d like to start this blog post by saying how glad I am that I was able to take two trips on the BIObus. It’s been a long road, and I enjoyed every beautiful bug, landscape and duct tape filled second of it. It will nice to be home next week, but…
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A Surprise on Pender Island
A good portion of today was spent aquatic sampling at Greenburn Lake on South Pender Island. While sorting through the clutter of bottom debris dumped into our white pan, we found an assortment of different aquatic invertebrates which were all fascinating. But we were particularly captivated by what we found resting on a nearby log…
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Outreach at Okanagan Lake Provincial Park
Welcome to another rendition of my BIObus Blog where you will hear stories about our amazing adventure in Canada’s Wild West!
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Site dismantling, mating Meloidae and Manitobans
Hello faithful readers, and welcome to another exciting addition of my BIObus blog! Today I will be going over the take-down of our Grasslands sites (complete, of course, with a storm, our meeting with a group of students from Manitoba, and), a really cool beetle.
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Bison, Prairie Dogs and Thunderstorms
Hello! Danielle again, here to tell you about the BIOBus crew’s adventures in Grasslands. Today we ventured from our normal location, the East Block of Grasslands National Park, and drove to explore the West Block of Grasslands National Park. There is no direct route between the two blocks, so we had to drive north above…
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Hellfire, Hail, and hello Saskatchewan!
Hey everybody, I’m Graham and I’m a part of the BIObus team going to the west coast of Canada. This is my second trip on the bus, and I’m hoping it will be just as amazing as last year! It’s nice to be back on my mobile home away from home out in the field…