Request for photos Kipawa Lake Preservation Society

[cmoreau]

We are currently searching for high quality jpeg photos (landscape orientation) to feature in our upcoming 2017/2018 calendar. The calendar will run from July 2017 - Dec. 2018. The proceeds from sales go to the Kipawa Lake Preservation Society to help cover our operating costs, continued awareness initiatives and water quality testing. If you'd like to submit a photo please do so via email savekipawalake@gmail.com, for higher resolution photos (which are preferred) a dropbox, google drive or similar may be required to share your photos. You must be the photographer and provide permission to use the photo or submit along with the photo written permission for use from the photographer. If you have photos to submit please do so as soon as possible as we hope to have the calendars assembled, printed and ready for sale by May 18th.

Our focus is on show casing the natural beauty of the Kipawa area so please no photos of people holding fish, wildlife and landscape shots are preferred. We require season coverage and typically have difficulty finding winter, fall and spring photos.


Thank you!

[JigginFool]

How can we buy calendar?

[Phil Indablank]

I sent you an email with the following pictures.  The dock picture is from an old dock near the outpost cabin of Taggart Bay Lodge.  I may have higher quality copies saved on my camera if you decide to use either picture.

[cmoreau]

Thank you for submitting those beautiful photos.

[cmoreau]

@JigginFool
The calendars will be available for purchase on our website mid-May/early June. www.kipawalakepreservationsociety.ca
We may also have a few places locally where they can be purchased - I will provide an update once we have the details worked out.

[cmoreau]

Calendars are still available and can be purchased directly from our website
www.kipawalakepreservationsociety.ca

Please be sure to select the appropriate shipping method either Canada or USA in the drop down as it changes the final price.

Thank you.

[Dog]

just read the entire water quality report on the website. Very interesting and a little surprising in some respects.

http://www.kipawalakepreservationsociety.ca/PDF/Kipawa%20Lake%20Preservation%20Society%20-%20Water%20Quality%20Report%20English.pdf

[Fort Wisers]

just read the entire water quality report on the website. Very interesting and a little surprising in some respects.

http://www.kipawalakepreservationsociety.ca/PDF/Kipawa%20Lake%20Preservation%20Society%20-%20Water%20Quality%20Report%20English.pdf

Wow a bit of an eye opener to the current state.......

[cmoreau]

surprizing/eye opening in what way?

[CaptainCrappie]

Quite a lot of info regarding the Water Quality web site.  To me there appears to be some confusing statements throughout the report, but then I'm not a chemist and never heard of some of those chemicals. The one statement that stands out to me is " Mercury levels were found to exceed acceptable levels (>0.5mg/kg) in both Lake Trout and Walleye."  Sounds like Lake Erie or The Ohio River,  not Kipawa.  I'm wondering what the recommended consumption of Kipawa lake trout or walleye is....without fear of getting sick?  If it's like 5 lbs. a day who cares but if it's like... only eat once a week or so,  the locals should take that into consideration. Speaking for myself,  I could eat Kipawa walleye every day..... gotta die from something, eh?

C.C.

[cmoreau]

So bioaccumulation of mercury in fish tissues can happen any where. The levels reported were from a published government study from a few years ago.

Quebec has guidelines on safe consumption levels for most lakes in Quebec including Kipawa.

http://www.mddep.gouv.qc.ca/eau/guide/localisation.asp#onglets

http://www.mddep.gouv.qc.ca/eau/guide/fiche.asp?site=04260349

http://www.mddep.gouv.qc.ca/eau/guide/fiche.asp?site=R0000002


Here is some additional info on mercury

http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/educ/hgfish.aspx

[Dog]

so based on the recommendations meals twice a week of walleye in the 16-20" from lake Sas (closest sampling spot to Lake O) are safe... good to know.... all the more reason to drive a lil farther as far as I'm concerned, consume less mercury in your fish :-)

http://www.mddep.gouv.qc.ca/eau/guide/fiche.asp?site=04260350 (Lake Sas in the Zec)

http://www.mddep.gouv.qc.ca/eau/guide/fiche.asp?site=04260349 (Lake Kip)
http://www.mddep.gouv.qc.ca/eau/guide/fiche.asp?site=R0000002

[cmoreau]

We are once again searching for high quality jpeg photos (landscape orientation) to feature in our upcoming 2019 calendar. The calendar will run from Jan. 2019 - Dec. 2019. The proceeds from sales go to the Kipawa Lake Preservation Society to help cover our operating costs, continued awareness initiatives and water quality testing. If you'd like to submit a photo please do so via email savekipawalake@gmail.com, for higher resolution photos (which are preferred) a dropbox, google drive or similar may be required to share your photos. You must be the photographer and provide permission to use the photo or submit along with the photo written permission for use from the photographer. If you have photos to submit please do so as soon as possible as we hope to have the calendars assembled, printed and ready for sale by mid-May.

Our focus is on show casing the natural beauty of the Kipawa area so please no photos of people holding fish. Wildlife and landscape shots are preferred. We require season coverage and typically have difficulty finding winter, fall and spring photos.


Thank you!

[cmoreau]

2019 Calendars are now available! $10 each, all proceeds to the Kipawa Lake Preservation Society for lake conservation efforts. Calendars can be purchased locally at the Kebaowek band office, Kipawa Bait and Tackle and Kipawa Lodge. For online orders you can order via email savekipawalake@gmail.com or directly through our website www.kipawalakepreservationsociety.ca

For website orders please be sure to select the appropriate shipping (Canada or USA), the site still says 2017/2018 calendar (we are working to update this) but we will send you a 2019 calendar.

We are pleased to announce the photographers/photos chosen for our 2019 Calendar:
January - Robert Joly
February - Susan McLeod
March - Keith Benard
April - Pauline Gagne
May - Ruth Zook
June - Taylor Perrier
July - Chris Conn
August - Dave Morin
September - Tyler Wilbee
October - Suzanne Cloutier
November - Tanya Samuel
December - Denise Lebel

It was extremely difficult choosing only 12 photos. We had so many beautiful photos to choose from this year. Thank you to all who submitted photos. In many cases we loved your photos but could not use them in the calendar due to the size/orientation of the photo, low resolution or simply because we needed photos from various seasons. Typically we get many photos from the summer months but we only require a few of those for our calendar. We also like to show photos from various photographers, subject matter and lake regions, this year we had an over abundance of photos from Jawbone's Bay and chose to incorporate photos from various areas instead. Thank you again to all who submitted photos, you may still see your photo shared on our  facebook page even if it wasn't used in our calendar.

We will be looking for photos again next winter so please keep this in mind when you are visiting the Kipawa area. We often have the hardest time finding fall and winter photos.

Thank you!

[crackers42]

Apologies but I have to ask the question:

“Why would you not go north into Mckillop / pance” Or past raged up to the headwaters?

The mine is a very sensitive subject and some local owners may take this report and another light