Fall Eco Trip November 7-13, 2023
Saskatchewan Polytechnic is excited to offer its second Polar Bear Eco Trip in Fall 2023!
Join tour guides Leslie Tuchek and Susan Blum on an adventure to Canada’s famous polar bear capital, Churchill, Manitoba. We will travel through Saskatchewan parkland, then boreal forest to where taiga and tundra meet the Churchill River and Hudson Bay.
Sustainability and the environment are at the core of our adventure to this sensitive region. Participants travel to Churchill by shared van, then train.
Surge Micro-credential - Learn before you travel
As part of the trip package, participants will earn a Surge Micro-credential badge through pre-trip learning with subject experts. In September and October registrants will meet for lectures in person or by Zoom on the topics of geology, history, northern culture and the effects of climate change on our ecology.
Trip highlights
In Churchill, we travel in the Churchill Northern Studies Centre (CNSC) coach to tour the town site and visit historic Cape Merry bastions, the Miss Piggy plane wreck and Bird Cove. Our Churchill accommodations at the research station are shared bunk rooms and include meals, bedding and lectures.
A full day on the Tundra Buggy® brings us along the coast on the polar bears' traditional route to Hudson Bay where they wait for the ice to freeze so they may resume hunting seals. Foxes, ptarmigan, snowy owls and peregrine falcons are often sited.
Our last day in Churchill includes visits to the Town Complex, Itsanitaq Museum and Parks Canada Interpretive Centre.
Registration
Registration closed for 2023. To receive information about the 2024 Polar Bear Eco Trip once it becomes available, please complete the Sask Polytech Polar Bear Eco Trip 2024 form.
For more information about the trip:
- Polar Bear Eco Trip presentation document
- Read our three-part blog series about the Polar Bear Eco Trip in 2022.
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