Great white north!!!

Yes.. Strange brew is more the great white north.. what a great movie, eh?! But..what the hey? Close enough..... ;)
 
Im sure your right about the water colour(color) being from iron,,,
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Agreed. looks irony to me too, but what do I know I've never studied lampreys.
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And you've never had any formal training in Limnology, just hubris.
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I do have a wife who is a limnologist and earned her PhD, in part, studying highly colored lakes in Northern Wisconsin, so I think I have a pretty good consultant on this one if needed.
 
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Welcome to Gods Country!!!! I was born and raised in Washburn. Still have the family farm there. The divers are awesome as well as many of the sloughs for all the others.
 
In lotic waters at northern latitudes wth our predominant surface water pH range of 6-8, Fe complexes with humic and tannin charged organic derivatives. Ferric and Ferrous iron species are largely not evident. The color imparted to these waters is from that portion of the visible light spectrum reflected by these organic complexes, lending a brownish to orange coloration to the water. You are seeing reflected wavebands in the visible spectrum from these humic compounds and lignin derivatives. At snowmelt, conductivity in these streams is quite low, requiring us to shift from magnetic current meters over to mechanical units. We have been conducting surface flow readings for the least three weeks using mechanical meters the vast majority of the time due to dilution from overland runoff sources comprising the vast majority of the streamflow volumes.

I have yet to record a pH value in groundwater this year below 5.8.

http://water.usgs.gov/edu/characteristics.html#Conductance Here is a season example of a river system draining igneous derived soils. Our low conductivity flow period is not as extended here in the Lake Superior watershed.

Note the snowpack? Had we moved to the headwaters of this river system and into the spring creeks, the surface sediments would be coated with an orange precipitate which is ferrous hydroxide.




Im sure your right about the water colour(color) being from iron,,,
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Agreed. looks irony to me too, but what do I know I've never studied lampreys.
Click to expand...
And you've never had any formal training in Limnology, just hubris.
Click to expand...


I do have a wife who is a limnologist and earned her PhD, in part, studying highly colored lakes in Northern Wisconsin, so I think I have a pretty good consultant on this one if needed.
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In lotic waters at northern latitudes wth our predominant surface water pH range of 6-8, Fe complexes with humic and tannin charged organic derivatives. Ferric and Ferrous iron species are largely not evident. The color imparted to these waters is from that portion of the visible light spectrum reflected by these organic complexes, lending a brownish to orange coloration to the water. You are seeing reflected wavebands in the visible spectrum from these humic compounds and lignin derivatives. At snowmelt, conductivity in these streams is quite low, requiring us to shift from magnetic current meters over to mechanical units. We have been conducting surface flow readings for the least three weeks using mechanical meters the vast majority of the time due to dilution from overland runoff sources comprising the vast majority of the streamflow volumes.

I have yet to record a pH value in groundwater this year below 5.8.

http://water.usgs.gov/...ics.html#Conductance Here is a season example of a river system draining igneous derived soils. Our low conductivity flow period is not as extended here in the Lake Superior watershed.

Note the snowpack? Had we moved to the headwaters of this river system and into the spring creeks, the surface sediments would be coated with an orange precipitate which is ferrous hydroxide.




Im sure your right about the water colour(color) being from iron,,,
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Agreed. looks irony to me too, but what do I know I've never studied lampreys.
Click to expand...
And you've never had any formal training in Limnology, just hubris.
Click to expand...


I do have a wife who is a limnologist and earned her PhD, in part, studying highly colored lakes in Northern Wisconsin, so I think I have a pretty good consultant on this one if needed.
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Rick, I stopped at "lotic waters at northern latitudes..." You win, I'm sure you are right. No doubt your MS training on the effects of power plants on near-shore invertebrates positions you perfectly for the discussion we currently are in. I couldn't find your PhD work or any relevant publications, but I'm sure those are equally pertinent and will further bolster your position when provided. Either way, you are right and I'm clearly wrong given your most excellent background on bugs and fish squeezing which relate so perfectly to water chemistry.

T
 
No matter what the others are talking about......Phil, it looks like a great place. Hope you have tons of deer, grouse, ducks and other critters to keep you happy.




dc
 
Hey look..the waters brown..
What caused that?.....
Someone took a poop.....and some others need to.....
Congratulations on a great new place....no matter what the reason for the stained water.....
Wolves...you got Wolves....
Bears...I know you got them...and I know they'll poop in the woods so i'll assume they'll poop in the water...maybe they're the reason the water is brown....
Did I mention how neat the camp was.....
Steve
 
Ha Ha.. no matter the reason... there are bears and wolves!!!! :)


and bobcat, cougar, moose, elk, and deer.... and ducks.... :)
 
Fishers?...you got them?...
I always wanted a cabin in the deep woods....but the damned brown water was so disconcerting that I couldn't get past it....good for you for doing so....
Seriously that's is some neat stuff.....
Congratulations....


Steve
 
Way more Fisher than Pine Marten. The Fisher population exploded after they reintroduced them but has been nocked back a bit in recent years. There still is a season and you need to apply for a permit.
 
That sounds like a great plan. You'll learn a lot about winter up there, like to either love it or hate it. I don't think that far north you can be ambivilent about winter.
 
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