Sandstone Oxidation
With the change of seasons, my plant and fungus posts are coming to an end and my two popular winter series – PEI natural history and...
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PEI Untamed
katemacquarrie22
- Jul 12
- 2 min
Walchia Fossil Find
I’ve been checking my favorite coastal sites to see how they’re doing after Hurricane Fiona. As predicted, our sand dunes are recovering...
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katemacquarrie22
- Apr 5
- 3 min
The Ring-necked Pheasant Introduction
The 20th century was the ‘Wild West’ of wildlife introductions on PEI. You can read more about the Island’s White-tailed Deer experiment...
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katemacquarrie22
- Mar 15
- 4 min
Hungarian Partridge
During the 20th century, no fewer than six species of game birds were released on PEI with hopes they would establish. The most...
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katemacquarrie22
- Mar 1
- 3 min
PEI's White-tailed Deer Experiment
I recently received this lovely photo from Joyce Dewar, granddaughter of Walter Jones who was Premier of PEI from 1943 to 1953. This is...
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katemacquarrie22
- Feb 22
- 2 min
Permian to Present 13: The 20th Century
Through 12 chapters of my ‘Permian to Present’ series, we’ve explored PEI from the formation of its bedrock 300 million years ago,...
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katemacquarrie22
- Feb 8
- 3 min
Permian to Present 12: Introduced Wildlife
In recent editions of Permian to Present, we’ve seen how and why PEI lost its large, native mammals. But in the 1900s, people thought...
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katemacquarrie22
- Feb 1
- 3 min
Permian to Present 11: Land in the 1700s and 1800s
In the last three editions of ‘Permian to Present’ we looked at aspects of PEI’s forests and wildlife hundreds of years ago, before...
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katemacquarrie22
- Jan 25
- 2 min
Permian to Present 10: Otters!
Today you get two posts in one! My winter series ‘Permian to Present’ and ‘Wildlife Tracks & Sign’ intersect to tell the story of River...
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katemacquarrie22
- Jan 18
- 3 min
Permian to Present 9: Pre-settlement wildlife
In the last edition of Permian to Present, we got a glimpse into the Island landscape of three centuries ago, around the time Europeans...
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katemacquarrie22
- Jan 12
- 2 min
Permian to Present 8: Pre-settlement forests
In the last edition of PEI: Permian to Present, we learned what ancient pollen and early Indigenous sites tell us about the Island...
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katemacquarrie22
- Jan 5
- 3 min
Permian to Present 7: Post-glacial plants and people
So far in ‘PEI: Permian to Present’, we’ve explored the formation of the Island’s sedimentary sandstone bedrock, the fossils that can be...
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katemacquarrie22
- Dec 26, 2022
- 2 min
Permian to Present 6: Metamorphic rock
So far in ‘PEI: Permian to Present’ we’ve looked at the Island’s sedimentary sandstone, our only igneous outcrop, some of our common...
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katemacquarrie22
- Dec 26, 2022
- 2 min
Permian to Present 5: Post-glacial evidence
In the last edition of ‘PEI: Permian to Present’ we looked at the Island during and just after the last ice age. Today, let’s examine a...
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katemacquarrie22
- Dec 26, 2022
- 2 min
Reading Sandstone
I’ve had a lot of questions about green-grey layers in the Island’s sandstone. So today let’s look at two reasons why our sandstone is...
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katemacquarrie22
- Dec 26, 2022
- 2 min
Permain to Present 4: Ice Age
For this fourth edition of ‘PEI: Permian to Present’, let’s jump ahead about 246.9 million years to the time of the last Ice Age. Our...
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katemacquarrie22
- Dec 25, 2022
- 2 min
Post-Fiona: New Geological Formation
On September 23-24, 2022, Hurricane Fiona changed our Island’s coastline. But amid the heartbreak so many are feeling there is cause for...
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katemacquarrie22
- Dec 25, 2022
- 2 min
Permian to Present 3: Iron Rock
Welcome to the third edition of “PEI: Permian to Present”. So far, we’ve looked at the Island’s famous red sandstone, learned why it is...
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katemacquarrie22
- Dec 25, 2022
- 2 min
Permian to Present 2: Fossils
In the first edition of “PEI: Permian to Present” we looked at what the Island’s famous red standstone tells us about the environment in...
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katemacquarrie22
- Dec 25, 2022
- 2 min
Permian to Present 1: Reading Bedrock
Welcome to the first installment of my new series “Natural History of PEI: Permian to Present”. I’ll be posting these occasionally among...
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