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--Apple-Mail-34--714937510 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed I don't think anyone has mentioned suckers among the fish fauna, and =20 perhaps other "minnows" related to the lake chub? I also wonder if =20 brown bullhead catfish might occur in some backwater pools? And =20 three cheers for the volunteers who have worked on that popular trail =20= over the decades, for all of us recreators. And doesn't Nova Scotia =20 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 =20 >> bridge I >> believe near White Rock and runs upstream. I'm told it goes about =20 >> 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 =20= >> brief >> place on a steep slope has a drystone wall supporting the low =20 >> side, so it >> was a fair amount of trouble at some point. >> >> Second question: I left the trail to peer into a shallow side =20 >> channel, >> nearly a stillwater, very clear. It had a clean stone bottom, so =20 >> there must >> be more current when the water is a bit higher. It also appeared =20 >> to have >> more sun than average, since it was completely ice-free, while the =20= >> river was >> about 80% covered. I was surprised to see a small school of fish, =20 >> 1" =96 1 >> 1/4" long. "Just plain fish," the colour of the bottom, visible =20 >> more easily >> by their black shadows on the bottom than by their corpuses. Would =20= >> 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 --Apple-Mail-34--714937510 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> 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.<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">Rick Whitman <<a = href=3D"mailto:dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com">dendroica.caerulescens@gm= ail.com</a>></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">February 20, 2012 2:10:55 PM = AST</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [NatureNS] Gaspereau River path; = little fish</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">H