Animal Tracks

Coyote

Red Fox

Snowshoe Hare

Ruffed Grouse

Wetland Habitat

Wetlands are lands that are waterlogged and whose plant and animal communities are adapted to living on wet, poorly drained soils.

Wetlands are important habitats that provide homes for many plants, amphibians, and birds.

Snags/Stumps Habitat

You will find many dead or partially dead trees called 'snags' which are used by a wide variety of wildlife for nesting, feeding, and roosting.

Several species build nests in dead or broken-topped trees, and hawks often use snags as perches.

Animal Signs

Scats (droppings)

Tubular - dog family

Tapered - cat family

Flattened thread - weasel

Pellets - hawks, eagles, owls

Circular - snowshoe hare

Midden - chewed spruce and pine cones indicate the presence of squirrels and chipmunks.

Browse - chewed branches on an angle close to the ground indicate the presence of snowshoe hares.

Red Oak Plantation

Planted by grade 4 and 5 SKC students in June 2005.

The Red Oak trees may grow to 24 m with lobed leaves with pointed tips.

Raccoons, squirrels, blue jays, and small rodents eat the small acorns.

Large trees with cavities make good habitat for birds and mammals.

Tree Rings

Annual growth rings are used to age trees and to assess growth quality.

You can read the rings of a tree in either a cross section of the trunk or a core taken from the trunk.

Narrow rings indicate poor growth.

Wide, evenly spaced rings indicate good growth.

Black Spruce Plantation

Black Spruce is a slow growing evergreen tree from 30 to 50 feet in height, having a straight trunk and a narrow pointed crown of short, compact, drooping branches with upturned tips. The seeds are eaten by many different birds and small mammals.

Stone Fence

The stones are a boundary marker as a result of clearing by the original and previous owners. Field edges on the Island are often bounded by long lines of rock, picked from the cultivated land and thrown along the fence.

Eastern Larch Plantation

Larch seldom reaches a height of over 18 m on PEI. It is our only conifer that sheds its needles in the autumn.

On young trees or those growing in dense stands, the crown is narrowly pyramidal in outline.

Root Cellar

Root cellars normally had dirt floors, and the walls were constructed of local sandstone mortared together with a clay cement.

The cellars were a frost-free, but cool space to store harvested vegetables and fruits.

White Pine Plantation

The White Pine reaches a height of 30 to 60 m. The branches grow out at right angles to the trunk in whorls of 5.

There are over 2 dozen birds and several mammals that eat the seeds and nest in the cover of the large branches and cavities.