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Post by Lady Trapper on Feb 24, 2007 21:03:02 GMT -5
At over 1,000 km2, the Tobeatic Wilderness Area in southwestern Nova Scotia is the undisputed wild soul of the Maritimes. "The Toby" and the adjacent Kejimkujik National Park together protect 142,000 hectares of mixed woods, barrens and wetlands.
Due to its size and limited accessibility, the Tobeatic remains a stronghold for Nova Scotia's endangered native moose population. Other mammals include black bear, bobcat, river otter, and the uncommon pine martin. Until the early 1900s caribou roamed here too. The Tobeatic also provides a refuge for the threatened Blandings Turtle, and at least four species of endangered or threatened plants.
The best way to discover the Tobeatic by canoe. When people paddle into this wilderness they often disappear for days. Exploring the dozens of remote lakes and the rivers, streams and old portages linking them could take a lifetime. Many of the traditional canoe routes were made famous by Albert Bigelow Paine's renown 1908 book, The Tent Dwellers. Today's visitors, as in Paine's time, follow routes that had been known to the Mi'kmaq for centuries.
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