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The Emerald Reservoir No. 1
Buffalo Pound Lake, Qu'Appelle valley, Saskatchewan
50.60, -105.34 · Captured 2025-08-19
Giclée-quality archival print, made to order, ships internationally. Size & Framing Guide
The European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellite passed over southern Saskatchewan and caught Buffalo Pound Lake doing the thing it does every late summer: turning a startling emerald green. This narrow reservoir in the glacier-carved Qu'Appelle Valley supplies drinking water to Moose Jaw and Regina — each August, warm shallow water sets its algae blooming until the whole lake reads like a brushstroke of green ink across the harvest-brown prairie.
