BIOL 2903 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Petawawa River, Eastern Phoebe, Toxicodendron Radicans
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Eastern algonquin park, algonquin dome or highlands. Hemlocks are in the north facing slopes- are much cooler. Long horn pine sawyers love to eat dead wood. Algonquin: there is also young mixed forest on the east side. B/c of poplars porcupines are more common on the east side. What kind of animal like sandy, muddy shores for habitants: the sandpipers. The fish in the petawawa river and its lakes provide food for fish eaters: river otter, minks, birds that eat fish are bald eagles. There are many east side specialist : pickerel frogs are only found on the east side of algonquin, so are northern water snakes, an endangered species of turtle occurs here are wood turtles. These fish, amphibians and reptiles are also found in the ottawa valley and. The petawawa river also has # of plants that are: cardinal flower, purple fringed orchids are also common along the shores of the petawawa.