CRM-008 - Find your self Onanole Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

onecrazycanadian: Hi,

I am archiving this cache as it has been disabled for over a year or appears to have been in need of maintenance and abandoned. If the owner wishes to resurrect it they may do so with a new listing.

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Hidden : 7/5/2006
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

One of the knolls in the Onanole area is where you will find this cache. Quick cache and dash. Make sure to check out other caches in the Onanole Area.


Caching Riding Mountain

This cache location was discovered and used during a Caching Riding Mountain workshop last year. This is a great representation of a Knob and Kettle topography of the area.

Knob and Kettle topography
This land was carved and created by glacial deposition that dates to the last glaciation period and the retreat of the ice masses 10,000 years ago. As blocks of ice became separated from the glacier, they melted in place and created depressions of water. Aspen trees cover the glacial till on the knolls and the ground under the forest developed into relatively infertile gray luvisolic soil. White spruce occurs alongside the Aspen and the land opens occasionally into black spruce bogs and prairie. Open prairie areas occur infrequently throughout this relatively moist district. The periodic occurrence of fire prevents spruce and aspen from encroaching on these grasslands. Beavers are also active in this area, the wetlands are important moose habitat and elk play a role in grazing the prairie. During the fur trade era, this area was known to contain many marshes, ponds and furbearers. The Knob and Kettle Land District extends from Minnedosa, MB to Edmonton, AB. Areas south, southwest, and northwest of the Park represent this Land District. This District covers the largest area within the Region, stretching from the Spruce Woods in the Southeast to Roblin and the portions of the Duck Mountains in the Northwest. This Land District is represented in several protected areas, including Spruce Woods, Asessippi, and Duck Mountain Provincial Parks. Much of the natural biodiversity outside these Parks has been reduced as agriculture converted the natural prairies to farmland. The major conservation challenges in this Land District are habitat loss (drainage and conversion of land for agricultural purposes) and restoration of fire in the natural prairies in this Land District Hope you enjoy it. We stongly suggest to come to this location on a clear evening and enjoy the beautiful sunset on top of one of the many knolls in the area.

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