The Ottawa Valley Journal and The Modern Countryside: A City-Country Newspaper and The New Journalism in Eastern Ontario, 1887 to 1925

Abstract We examined habitat selection by breeding Cerulean Warblers (Dendroica cerulea) at three spatial scales in eastern Ontario over three years (1997–1999). Territories were characterized by well-spaced large trees, with high canopies and dense foliage cover at heights between 12–18 m. Nesting habitat additionally was characterized by dense foliage cover above 18 m. The results of our nest-patch (0.04 ha circle around nest) and nest-site (0.01 ha circle) analyses indicate that male Cerulean Warblers may take active roles in nest-site selection when selecting territories. We conclude from our nest-patch and nest-site selection analyses that territories likely contain multiple nest patches and sites and that male Cerulean Warblers may defend areas with multiple nest patches or sites, which may attract females to settle with them. Whether or not Cerulean Warbler females use nest-site availability as a mate- or territory-choice cue remains unknown. We also tested the validity of a commonly made assumption that a random sampling of habitat by researchers is representative of the habitat actually available to birds and found that, in our study area, the assumption was invalid. Taken together, our results point toward the need to maintain sizeable stands of mature, deciduous forest to ensure the persistence of Cerulean Warblers in eastern Ontario. Population characteristics such as lower minimum area requirements and a resilience to habitat disturbance may make that an easier job in eastern Ontario than elsewhere in this species' breeding range.

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“Split flee hide vanish disintegrate”: Tom Wolfe and the Arrest of New Journalism

Prospects ◽

10.1017/s0361233300006608 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 21 ◽

pp. 397-434

Author(s):

Daniel W. Lehman

Keyword(s):

New Journalism ◽

Tom Wolfe ◽

The Universe

Reading Tom Wolfe's nonfiction across its grain, for the manner by which its chameleon narrators and its historical author reverberate and intersect, is to enter a sustained fantasy of escape and recapture. For not only are Wolfe's fugitive plots – a psychedelic novelist on the lam in Mexico, a test pilot reeled to earth after eluding the clutches of the Mach One barrier, even his fictional Master of the Universe wriggling in a tangled web of transgression and punishment – the stuff of rights and wrongs, but for nearly a third of a century Tom Wolfe has made a habit of breaking every established rule and then denying he has done so.

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The New Journalism, the New Imperialism and the Fiction of Empire, 1870–1900

The Round Table ◽

10.1080/00358533.2016.1246817 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 105 (6) ◽

pp. 745-747

Author(s):

John M. MacKenzie

Keyword(s):

New Journalism ◽

New Imperialism

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MODERN POLLEN RAIN STUDIES IN EASTERN ONTARIO

Canadian Journal of Botany ◽

10.1139/b63-022 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 243-252 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

James E. King ◽

Ronald O. Kapp

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Long Range ◽

Southwestern United States ◽

Pollen Trap ◽

Modern Pollen ◽

Pollen Rain ◽

Moss Polsters ◽

Eastern Ontario

Moss polsters were collected at 15 sites between Toronto and Lake Timagami, Ontario, and at 4 localities in the Lake Timagami area for the purpose of determining the regional pollen rain and its local variations. Pollen percentages of Acer, Quercus, Ambrosia, Chenopodiaceae, Compositae, and Gramineae decrease northward and Picea, Pinus, and Betula increase at the more northerly sites. From the three most northern sites a regional pollen rain was calculated by averaging the percentages from nine pollen spectra. In this area the regional pollen rain is dominated by Picea (15%), Pinus (38%), and Betula (22%). At one site a grain of Ephedra was recovered, apparently carried in by long range drift. The nearest place that it grows naturally is in the southwestern United States. Various pollen trap types were investigated and it was found that all types of moss polsters and some types of decaying stumps (depending on their moisture-holding capacity) were effective in preserving the modern pollen rain.

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