{"id":1343,"date":"2011-04-07T09:44:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T16:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2011-04-15T11:56:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:56:15","slug":"otters-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"Otters on ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kootenay Lake (altitude 532 m) does not freeze over in the Winter. In the past, portions of the West Arm would sometimes freeze over, but that has not happened for a long time. The change had nothing to do with global warming. Rather it was the result of the upstream dams which maintained greater water depths during the coldest times of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; margin-top: 4px; margin-left: 8px; width: 240px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">The Kootenay Lake website offers more pictures of local <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/mammals\/carnivores\/otters\/index.html\">River Otters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other lakes in the region do freeze over, especially the smaller, shallow ones at higher altitudes. On March 22, 2011, Nicole Tremblay took these pictures of River Otters at Summit Lake (altitude 763 m). The otters maintain a hole in the ice so as to gain access to the fish they eat (second picture).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1344\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/otter110322aNT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1345\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/otter110322bNT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1346\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/otter110322cNT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\">Pictures by Nicole Tremblay used with permission<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kootenay Lake (altitude 532 m) does not freeze over in the Winter. In the past, portions of the West Arm would sometimes freeze over, but that has not happened for a long time. The change had nothing to do with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1343\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}