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July 19, 2003 marked the official opening of thet trail at the Epinette Creek Trail Head at Spruce Woods Provincial Park. The Seton Centre and The Mixed Grass Prairie Stewardship Program partnered with Manitoba Parks in the undertaking. Quiet Voices is a self guiding trail that features elevated illustrated interpretive markers at points along the trail. As you walk along the trails, with spring's crocuses giving way to summer, later to autumn flowers, you are invited to listen to the voices. These are the voices of the wind, the sun, the fire, the water, the plants, and the voices of the birds and animals that prefer the open expanse of prairie. It was a dream of Ernest Thompson Seton, who loved the wild native prairie, that it not be destroyed and lost.

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Invitation to Opening of Quiet Voices Wildflower Trail at Spruce Woods Provincial Park
July 19, 2003
Epinette Creek Trail Head, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
The Seton Centre, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

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Trailhead for the Quiet Voices Wildflower Trail at Epinette Creek, Spruce Woods Prov. Park
May 23, 2013
Epinette Creek Trail Head, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada

Credits:
Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Department of Conservation, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada
The Seton Centre, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

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Gerry Oliver gives interpretive talk at the opening of Quiet Voices Wildflower Trail
July 19, 2003
Epinette Creek Trail Head, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
The Seton Centre, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

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Interpretive sign for voice of the wind at Quiet Voices Wildflower Trail in Spruce Woods Prov. Park
May 23, 2013
Epinette Creek Trail Head, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada

Credits:
Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Department of Conservation, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada
The Seton Centre, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada,

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Wild Bergamot, monarda fistulosa, native to Carberry Plains and Sandhills.
1999
Epinette Creek Trail Head, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada

Credits:
Gerry Oliver, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

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Wild onion, allium stella, common to Carberry Plains, important food source for early residents
1999
Carberry Sandhills, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

Credits:
Gerry Oliver, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

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Western red lily, lilium philadelphium, native to the Carberry Plains
2010
Epinette Creek Trail Head, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada

Credits:
Cheryl Orr-Hood, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

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Side-oats Grama, bouteloua curtipendula, a grass native to the Carberry Sandhills
1999
Epinette Creek Trail Head, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada

Credits:
Gerry Oliver, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

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An expanse of Little Bluestem grass, andropogon gerardii, native to Carberry Sandhills.
1999
Carberry Sandhills, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

Credits:
Gerry Oliver, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

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Seed heads of Big Bluestem grass, andropogon gerardii, in Quiet Voices Wildflower Trail
1999
Epinette Creek Trail Head, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada

Credits:
Gerry Oliver, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

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Formerly called the Sandflower, Prairie crocus, anemone patens, harbinger of spring in Carberry area
1999
Carberry Sandhills, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

Credits:
Gerry Oliver, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

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Sandflowers, in 1882 Seton observed what he called billions of them, a purple haze.
Taken May 4, 2011
Epinette Creek Trail Head, Spruce Woods Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada

Credits:
Cheryl Orr-Hood, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada

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Showy ladyslipper, Cypripedium reginae, found near Quiet Voices Wildflower Trail
2010
Spruce Woods Provincial Park,Carberry, Manitoba

Credits:
Cheryl Orr-Hood, Carberry, Manitoba, Canada