Peitahigan Lake is a lake in

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in the

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in the

boreal forest Taiga or tayga ( ; , ), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by pinophyta, coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. The taiga, or boreal forest, is the world's largest land biome. I ...

ecozone of Canada. The lake is one of six notable lakes in the Rusty Creek watershed. The other lakes include

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, First Mustus, Second Mustus, Third Mustus, and Fourth Mustus. Rusty Creek and the lakes are part of the Waterhen River

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...

. The Waterhen River is a tributary of the Beaver River, which flows north into

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and the Churchill River, a major tributary in the

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. Several streams feed into Peitahigan Lake, including ones that drain the southern slopes of the Mostoos Hills. The outflow is a short east-flowing creek that flows into Third Mustus Lake. Access to the lake is via a gravel road that runs along the west side of the lake that connects up with Highway 224 south of Peitahigan Lake. An 11-kilometre section of the Boreal Trail goes around the lake and over by the Mustus Lakes.

Fish species

Fish species found in the lake include

lake whitefish The lake whitefish (''Coregonus clupeaformis'') is a species of freshwater whitefish from North America. Lake whitefish are found throughout much of Canada and parts of the northern United States, including all of the Great Lakes. The lake white ...

northern pike The northern pike (''Esox lucius'') is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus ''Esox'' (pikes). They are commonly found in brackish water, moderately salty and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere (''i.e.'' holarctic in distribution). T ...

, and

walleye The walleye (''Sander vitreus'', Synonym (taxonomy), synonym ''Stizostedion vitreum''), also called the walleyed pike, yellow pike, yellow pikeperch or yellow pickerel, is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern ...

. The lake was last stocked with 200,000 walleye fry in 2022.

References

{{Authority control Lakes of Saskatchewan Beaver River No. 622, Saskatchewan Division No. 17, Saskatchewan

Fish species

See also

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