Quetico Foundation
PO Box 1424 Station K M4P 3J7 Toronto, ON, Canada

This week at Quetico our deciduous trees are leafing out birch, aspen, poplar, willow, cherry, maple and even coniferous tamarack. Trembling aspen has the mos...t widespread deciduous tree in our northern forests. Aspen trees send out shallow roots that sprout new trees forming a grove. The trees are clones joined at the root and are considered a single organism. When you see a grove of aspen leafing out all at once, or changing colour in the fall simultaneously you are looking at one plant. See more

Thank you Bryan for taking on the challenge! If you haven’t taken the challenge yet, there is still time. There are a lot of incredible prizes available for the winners! #queticoportagechallenge https://queticofoundation.org/pr/quetico-portage-challenge/

Does wilderness still exist? It's been fourteen years since filmmaker Kip Slidell and The Happy Camper spent two summers paddling the interior of Quetico and interviewing paddlers they met, asking them the ultimate question: Does wilderness still exist? What are your thought now? #ThrowbackThursday https://youtu.be/pLf0Jr7TRas

Portaging the Milky Way, photograph by Bryan Hansel Photography The Quetico Foundation is asking paddlers and non-paddlers alike to participate in a unique contest to celebrate the northern Ontario wilderness park without going far from home. Enter the challenge to win some great prizes. #queticoportagechallenge https://queticofoundation.org/pr/quetico-portage-challenge/

Wilderness author Adam Shoalts portaging his canoe down to the lake. This is the same canoe he used on his nearly 4,000 km solo journey across Canada's Arctic, which Shoalts wrote about in his national bestseller, Beyond the Trees. #queticoportagechallenge

"Portage to a Lake" by Paul Hoy