{"id":1209,"date":"2012-06-01T13:31:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2020-01-31T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:19:07","slug":"the-main-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/the-main-river\/","title":{"rendered":"The Main River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/assets\/images\/conservation\/blog\/main-river-resized.jpg\" alt=\"The Main River\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iatnl.ca\/index.php\/news\/25\/26\/Main-River-Becomes-Waterway-Provincial-Park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Image Credit: The Main River<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find the Main River in Newfoundland running through a spectacular range of wilderness landscapes; from its headwaters in Long Range Mountains, to tundra-like barrens, through softwood forests, grasslands, even an 8 km canyon, all before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>It is considered a relatively short river at only 57 kilometres long but that doesn\u2019t mean it doesn\u2019t have much to offer. The Main River was designated a Canadian Heritage River in 2001, it is considered one of the last wilderness rivers in Newfoundland and delivers a fantastic white-water canoeing experience.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, one can\u2019t forget to mention the abundance of wildlife found here. The balsam fir and black spruce forests provide habitat for caribou, moose and the endangered Newfoundland marten. Black bear, snowshoe hare, beaver, mink, lynx, red fox, and river otter can also be found within its watershed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"image-380764442\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/assets\/images\/conservation\/blog\/newfoundland-marten-resized.jpg\" alt=\"Newfoundland Marten\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.env.gov.nl.ca\/env\/snp\/programs\/education\/animal_facts\/mammals\/marten.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Image Credit: Newfoundland Marten<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Osprey, bald eagle, and the great horned owl are some of the larger bird species you may see as well as numerous waterfowl including common goldeneye, green-winged teal,\u00a0and the red-breasted merganser.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s Atlantic salmon \u2013 in fact the Main River has one of the healthiest populations of Atlantic salmon in all of Newfoundland.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also an oasis of plant life including cranberry, orchids, pitcher plant (Newfoundland and Labrador\u2019s provincial flower), bunchberry, wintergreen, lilies, lichens and mosses.<\/p>\n<div id=\"image-380764443\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/assets\/images\/conservation\/blog\/pitcher-plant-resized.jpg\" alt=\"Pitcher Plant\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.nl.ca\/aboutnl\/floral.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Image Credit: Pitcher Plant<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Main River definitely sounds like an area full of natural beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Image Credit: The Main River You can find the Main River in Newfoundland running through a spectacular range of wilderness landscapes; from its headwaters in Long Range Mountains, to tundra-like&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[705,488,110],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-connect-with-nature","tag-canadas-waters","tag-main-river","tag-river-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7044,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/7044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}