Saturday Morning News – July 14

Weather – Cloudy. Becoming a mix of sun and cloud this morning. Fog patches. High 21 except 16 near Lake Superior. Humidex 26. UV index 8 or very high.

Marine – Wind light becoming southeast 10 knots overnight then increasing to southwest 15 Sunday evening. Waves one-half metre or less. Fog

News Tidbits – The City of Sault Ste. Marie’s submission is one of two selected by Noront Resources Inc. to move on to the next stage of the process to select a site for a Ferrochrome Production Facility.

A bat found dead in the Elgin St. and Wellington St. E. area in Sault Ste. Marie has tested positive for rabies on July 13th, a day after it had been submitted for testing. The bat showed no signs of trauma. APH offers tips on Rabies – click here.

Lake Superior Provincial Park (LSPP) is hosting a BioBlitz this weekend! Please find attached the schedule for this special event. “So a bioblitz is a brief period of time, usually 24 hours, that experts and amateurs come together to specifically record all nature sightings in a given area. All the records are compiled into a single data set of the biodiversity of that location at that point in time.” explained Martha Martens, a Natural Heritage Education leader from Killbear Provincial Park.

Everyone is invited to become a citizen scientist and discover all that lives in LSPP! Search for species in a group that interests you—birds, plants, fungi, insects—and we’ll record what we find in 24 hours.Your efforts will contribute to LSPP’s biological inventory!