Tobeatic Game Reserve
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The Tobeatic Wilderness Area is a protected area
located in south central Nova Scotia
, Canada
adjacent to and roughly three times the size of Kejimkujik National Park
. The park spans five counties: Annapolis County
, Digby County
, Queens County, Yarmouth County
and Shelburne County
. In 1998, the Tobeatic Wildlife Management Area (the successor to the Tobeatic Game Reserve) and additional Crown lands, were designated by the Province of Nova Scotia as the Tobeatic Wilderness Area.
The word Tobeatic means "Place of the Alder" in the Mi'kmaq
language.
The region is drawn with rivers and studded with many lakes. It contains large areas of pristine Acadian forest. The geography of the Tobeatic is quite varied as it consists of wetland
s, woodland
s, scrublands and barrens
. The following glacial features can be found here: glacial barrens, erratic
s, drumlin
s, esker
s, glacial outwash (sandur
) and kettle lakes.
The Tobeatic differs from Kejimkujik National Park
in that some hunting
and public leasing of land is allowed, and that campsite
s, canoe routes, and portage
s are not as developed or maintained. However, the Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Labour, Protected Areas Division, is in the process of opening some trails systems and retiring hunting camps. All Terrain Vehicle use within the Reserve has also been disallowed. Along with Kejimkujik, the Tobeatic is part of the UNESCO designated Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve
.
The government of Nova Scotia
has given approximately 30 leaseholders the choice of trading their leased land for $20,000 (Cdn. funds) and property on government land elsewhere. As of January 1, 2007, about 25 have agreed. Under the current lease agreement, leased land reverts to government control once the current leaseholder dies.
biotite
monzogranite and leucomonzogranite. It's surficial geology is largely a stoney till plain and contains many morraines, eskers, hummocks and drumlins
", although at that time, neither the Tobeatic Wilderness Reserve nor Kejimkujik National Park existed.
Tusket River
Protected area
Protected areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognised natural, ecological and/or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the enabling laws of each country or the regulations of the international...
located in south central Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
adjacent to and roughly three times the size of Kejimkujik National Park
Kejimkujik National Park
Kejimkujik National Park is part of the Canadian National Parks system, located in the province of Nova Scotia...
. The park spans five counties: Annapolis County
Annapolis County, Nova Scotia
Annapolis County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia located in the western part of the province on the Bay of Fundy. The county seat is Annapolis Royal.-History:...
, Digby County
Digby County, Nova Scotia
Digby County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.Taking its name from the Township of Digby , which had been named in honour of Rear Admiral Robert Digby who dispatched HMS Atlanta to convey loyalists from New York City in the spring of 1783 to Conway, which became known as Digby,...
, Queens County, Yarmouth County
Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
For the ship built in Yarmouth County, see County of YarmouthYarmouth County is a rural county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It has both traditional Anglo-Scottish and Acadian French culture as well as significant inland wilderness areas, including over 365 lakes and several major rivers...
and Shelburne County
Shelburne County, Nova Scotia
Shelburne County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.-History:Shelburne County was founded in 1784 shortly following the influx of Loyalist settlers evacuated from the newly independent United States of America...
. In 1998, the Tobeatic Wildlife Management Area (the successor to the Tobeatic Game Reserve) and additional Crown lands, were designated by the Province of Nova Scotia as the Tobeatic Wilderness Area.
The word Tobeatic means "Place of the Alder" in the Mi'kmaq
Mi'kmaq language
The Mi'kmaq language is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 9,100 Mi'kmaq in Canada and the United States out of a total ethnic Mi'kmaq population of roughly 20,000. The word Mi'kmaq is a plural word meaning 'my friends' ; the adjectival form is Míkmaw...
language.
The region is drawn with rivers and studded with many lakes. It contains large areas of pristine Acadian forest. The geography of the Tobeatic is quite varied as it consists of wetland
Wetland
A wetland is an area of land whose soil is saturated with water either permanently or seasonally. Wetlands are categorised by their characteristic vegetation, which is adapted to these unique soil conditions....
s, woodland
Woodland
Ecologically, a woodland is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade. Woodlands may support an understory of shrubs and herbaceous plants including grasses. Woodland may form a transition to shrubland under drier conditions or during early stages of...
s, scrublands and barrens
Barrens
Barrens may refer to:* Pine barrens, a type of ecosystem found in the Northeastern United States** Pine Barrens , a pine barren in the state of New Jersey...
. The following glacial features can be found here: glacial barrens, erratic
Glacial erratic
A glacial erratic is a piece of rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests. "Erratics" take their name from the Latin word errare, and are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hundreds of kilometres...
s, drumlin
Drumlin
A drumlin, from the Irish word droimnín , first recorded in 1833, is an elongated whale-shaped hill formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated till or ground moraine.-Drumlin formation:...
s, esker
Esker
An esker is a long winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel, examples of which occur in glaciated and formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North America...
s, glacial outwash (sandur
Sandur
A sandur is a glacial outwash plain formed of sediments deposited by meltwater at the terminus of a glacier.- Formation :Sandar are found in glaciated areas, such as Svalbard, Kerguelen Islands, and Iceland...
) and kettle lakes.
The Tobeatic differs from Kejimkujik National Park
Kejimkujik National Park
Kejimkujik National Park is part of the Canadian National Parks system, located in the province of Nova Scotia...
in that some hunting
Hunting
Hunting is the practice of pursuing any living thing, usually wildlife, for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to applicable law...
and public leasing of land is allowed, and that campsite
Campsite
A campsite or camping pitch is a place used for overnight stay in the outdoors. In British English a campsite is an area, usually divided into a number of pitches, where people can camp overnight using tents or camper vans or caravans; this British English use of the word is synonymous with the...
s, canoe routes, and portage
Portage
Portage or portaging refers to the practice of carrying watercraft or cargo over land to avoid river obstacles, or between two bodies of water. A place where this carrying occurs is also called a portage; a person doing the carrying is called a porter.The English word portage is derived from the...
s are not as developed or maintained. However, the Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Labour, Protected Areas Division, is in the process of opening some trails systems and retiring hunting camps. All Terrain Vehicle use within the Reserve has also been disallowed. Along with Kejimkujik, the Tobeatic is part of the UNESCO designated Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve
Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve
The Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve was designated in 2001 under the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme. It consists of five counties in Nova Scotia, Canada: Annapolis, Digby, Queens, Shelburne and Yarmouth. The core protected areas of the biosphere reserve are Kejimkujik National Park and the...
.
The government of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...
has given approximately 30 leaseholders the choice of trading their leased land for $20,000 (Cdn. funds) and property on government land elsewhere. As of January 1, 2007, about 25 have agreed. Under the current lease agreement, leased land reverts to government control once the current leaseholder dies.
Geology
The Tobeatic Wilderness Area is made up of several geological units including: the Goldenville Formation, the Halifax Formation, and Middle to Late DevonianDevonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic Era spanning from the end of the Silurian Period, about 416.0 ± 2.8 Mya , to the beginning of the Carboniferous Period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Mya...
biotite
Biotite
Biotite is a common phyllosilicate mineral within the mica group, with the approximate chemical formula . More generally, it refers to the dark mica series, primarily a solid-solution series between the iron-endmember annite, and the magnesium-endmember phlogopite; more aluminous endmembers...
monzogranite and leucomonzogranite. It's surficial geology is largely a stoney till plain and contains many morraines, eskers, hummocks and drumlins
Waterways
A book on "Paddling the Tobeatic" was published by Nimbus Publishers . The Tobeatic/Kejimkujik area is also the setting for "The Tent DwellersThe Tent Dwellers
The Tent Dwellers is a book by Albert Bigelow Paine, chronicling his travels through inland Nova Scotia on a trout fishing trip with Dr. Edward "Eddie" Breck, and with guides Charles "the Strong" and Del "the Stout", one June in the early 1900s...
", although at that time, neither the Tobeatic Wilderness Reserve nor Kejimkujik National Park existed.
Rivers
Rivers in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area include:- Shelburne RiverShelburne RiverThe Shelburne River is a 53 km long river in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a wilderness river and is a tributary of Mersey River. It starts in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area.The Shelburne River was designated a Canadian Heritage River in 1997.- References :...
- Jordan River
- Roseway River
- Clyde RiverClyde River- Australia :*Clyde River , a river on the south coast of New South Wales*Clyde River , a river in central Tasmania*Clyde River , a river in the Northern Territory- United States of America :*Clyde River...
- Sissiboo River
- Caribou River
- Tusket RiverTusket RiverThe Tusket River is a Canadian river located in Nova Scotia's Yarmouth County.-Geography:The Tusket River is a major river system and drainage basin in Yarmouth County in southern Nova Scotia. It has numerous branches and associated rivers, and also flows through a series of lakes...
, East Branch - Napier River
Shelburne River system:
- Back Lake
- Beverley Lake
- Buckshot Lake
- Churchill Lake
- Cofan Lake
- Dunn Lake
- East Bingay Lake
- First Beaver Lake
- Flagstaff Lake
- Granite Lake
- Harlow Lake
- House Lake
- Irving Lake
- Little Cofan Lake
- Little Pine Lake
- Little Tobeatic Lake
- Little Tupper Lake
- Lost Lake
- Lower Silver Lake
- Morton Lake
- Oscar Lake
- Pebbeloggitch Lake
- Pine Lake
- Sand Lake
- Sand Beach Lake
- Second Beaver Lake
- Siskech Lake
- Stoney Ditch Lake
- Tobeatic Lake
- Upper Silver Lake
Jordan River System
- Babs Lake
- Black Duck Lake
- Boot Lake
- Harlow Lake
- Joe Flogger Pond
- Long Lake
- Longview Lake
- Lower Branch Lake
- Martin Lake
- Mullins Lake
- Spectacle Lake
- Upper Branch Lake
- Wainwright Lake
Napier River System
- Chelsea Deadwater
- Churchills lake
- Dugeau Lake
- Harlow Lake
- Napier Lake
- Rushy Lake
- Stony Pond
Roseway River System
- Bald Mountain Lake
- Berry Lake
- Big Dispatch Lake
- Big Round Lake
- Bluffhill Lake
- Bowers Lake
- Crain Lake
- Cranberry Lake
- First Round Lake
- Grass Lake
- Great Pine Lake
- Handsled Lake
- Halfmoon Lake
- Junction Lake
- Little Dispatch Lake
- Little Stony Lake
- McGill Lake
- Mink Lake
- Moose Lake
- North Bingay Lake
- Quinlan Lake
- Rocky Pond
- Roseway Lake
- South Bingay Lake
- Skudiak Lake
- Three River Lake
- Trap Lake
- Twin Lakes
- West Bingay Lake
- West Roseway Lake
- Whetstone Lake
- Whitecap Lake
Sissiboo River System
- Big Pine Lake
- Cranberry Lake
- Dish Lake
- Granite Lake
- Hardwood Lake
- Little Dish Lake
- Little Loon Lake
- Little Pine Lake
- Moosehide Lake
- Rocky Daniels lake
- Second Daniels lake
- Sporting Lake
- Third Daniels Lake
- Western Lake
- Whitesand Lake
Tusket RiverTusket RiverThe Tusket River is a Canadian river located in Nova Scotia's Yarmouth County.-Geography:The Tusket River is a major river system and drainage basin in Yarmouth County in southern Nova Scotia. It has numerous branches and associated rivers, and also flows through a series of lakes...
, East Branch
- Clearwater Lake
- Dog Lake
- East Cranberry Lake
- Little Lake
- Oakland Lake
- Rockyshore Lake
- Rush Lake
- South Wallace Lake
- Sunday Lake