Lake Simcoe

and about 2500 acres of water, Portage Lakes State Park in Ohio is a wonderful park for fishing, camping, or to just get away from it all. Featuring a number of lakes for boating, fishing, and wildlife watching, Portage Lakes is a unique state park offering something for everyone in the family to enjoy. Portage Lakes State Park touches both Akron and Canton making it an ideal place to escape the hustle and bustle of city life in this serene area. Portage Lakes State Park offers over 50 camping…

They own a little lake house about 45 minutes away from Sea Tac. the lakes surrounded by trees and the sun glistens through the trees and sparkles off of the water. It’s a very well maintained body of water, but the lakes downfall will always be the ice cold water. Almost painful when you first jump in, worth it though. In the garage, there’s a couple kayaks, a small fishing boat, oars, and some life jackets. I really despise going in there because it smells like musty lake water, so me and…

The culling of white pine on Blackstone Lake began in the late 1880s with the arrival of the Conger Lumber Company. Once the commercially viable pine had been fully exploited the process of stripping hemlock trees of their bark for the leather tanning process began on the lake in the spring of 1900. At the time the Rankin Bros., headed by James Rankin on Blackstone, were supplying the Conger Lumber Co. Another sawmill operator in the region was the Mitchell Lumber Co. set up by Thomas Mitchell…

avocets and snowy plovers. It also supports millions of fish and a host of invertebrates, important food sources for the birds.” (Blogger, 2015) Salton Sea is a major problem because water is evaporating faster than water getting put back into the lake. If nothing is done about this, Salton Sea will dry up and destroy the whole ecosystem that is connected to it. “Some 90 percent of the original wetlands of the Colorado River Delta and central California have dried up or been converted…

Lake Oroville offers an impressive array of recreational options. Ranging from the standard water sports to excellent fishing, this lake offers everything you would need on a vacation. From Lake Oroville houseboat rentals, you can explore the undersea life and swim across the waves. Whether you need to get away for a while or just want to spend time with your family, Lake Oroville boat rentals offer the escape that you are looking for. If you love native wildlife, sit outside on your deck for…

be doubted that the whole family couldn’t wait for the warmer weather of spring and they would all be heading to the Jennings’s homestead farm on Blackstone Lake for the…

France where Champlain was from. In 1609 Champlain guided and provided another voyage for his crew and himself up the Richelieu River. He sailed and explored down the networks of narrow lakes between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Later Champlain named the lake we know as Lake Champlain after himself because he was the first navigator to map and describe it. In 1615 Champlain made another trip to Canada and this time he brought with him a tribe of…

paper will discuss the Great Lakes regions issue with invasive species introduced via ships ballast water, and the response that has followed since then. The impact of shipping and its economic benefit to the region will also be reviewed. The Great Lakes The great lakes system consists of a group of linked freshwater lakes spanning across the traditionally defined “heart land” region of North America. The system consists primarily of 5 distinct bodies of water; Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron,…

the Upper and Lower Peninsulas. This change comes from rivers and lakes eroding, transporting, and depositing; glaciers carving the land and leaving behind water; and humans manipulating water for beneficial reasons. It’s no secret that Michigan is shaped by water simply due to the fact that it is surrounded by lakes on almost every border it has, but the rivers and lakes have more…

the Earth and its inhabitants. Sinclair begins strongly by discussing the history of Lake Winnipeg, and how the name “Winnipeg” embodies the ecology of the lake. This example of how a word has such a strong concept behind it is effectively used to draw the reader in, and sets up a strong ground for the theme of the article. Sinclair touches on how the Cree and Anishinaabeg were able to use this metaphor of Lake Winnipeg to tell stories about “muddied beings”(205) and how they had a powerful…