Parks Blog

Category: Nature Knowledge

  • Hands off park wildlife!

    Protected areas are fascinating places. If you’re lucky, during your visit you may spot a wide variety of wildlife who call these parks home. However, you may not always see healthy animals. In these natural spaces, you could see animals that look sick, injured, or orphaned. We know you want to help wildlife, but helping…

  • Is that lichen killing those trees?

    Today’s post comes from Cara Freitag, a past Park Naturalist at Neys Provincial Park. There are many misconceptions about nature: climb a tree to escape bears,  moose are friendly, coolers are strong enough to prevent bears getting your food. Before I became a naturalist, I thought that all insects were bugs, not just the Hemiptera…

  • Community science with the Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere

    Today’s blog was written by Discovery Program Project Coordinator Jessica Stillman. This summer, Grundy Lake Provincial Park, Killbear Provincial Park, and The Massasauga Provincial Park collaborated with the Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere (GBB) to host bioblitzes within the world’s largest freshwater archipelago. What is a bioblitz? In short, it is a community science event…

  • It's Take Me Outside Day!

    Written by Discovery Program Project Coordinator Jessica Stillman. Teachers, did you know you can help your students be more engaged and enthusiastic in all areas of their learning by taking them outside? Studies show that students who experience nature as part of the educational process score higher on tests in reading, writing, and math and…

  • Leeches: fearsome, ferocious, and… friendly?

    Today’s blog comes from Charlotte Westcott, Discovery leader at Neys Provincial Park. One of the most exciting things about working for Ontario Parks is getting to investigate all the different species that live in your area. Here at Neys, we have a diverse array of boreal forest flyers, runners, critters, and crawlers to investigate. Yet…

  • Keeping tabs on turtles in Southeastern Ontario

    Over the years, Ontario Parks staff have created many blogs about turtles, their significance to the Ontario landscape, and why it’s important that we protect and support them. You may even be familiar with our Turtle Protection Project! With seven of the eight turtle species found in Ontario being species-at-risk under the Ontario Endangered Species Act,…

  • Canadian Geographic’s Ontario Parks Giant Floor Map: bringing parks to the classroom

    Calling all teachers… Ontario is one huge place. Most of us spend the majority of our time in one small section of the province. But there is a vast expanse waiting to be explored. We’ve partnered with Canadian Geographic for something big. GIANT, you could say. We’re excited to unfold the Ontario Parks Giant Floor Map, and…

  • Don’t dump that yard waste!

    You’ve finished cleaning up your yard and now have a pile of branches and leaves to dispose of. Sending organic materials to the dump may cost you money and increases the amount of methane released into the atmosphere.* Wouldn’t it make sense to take it to a local green space to decompose naturally? While we…

  • Falling for campsite crafting

    Today, Content Development Specialist Andrea Coulter takes us through some family friendly fall crafts.  Last fall, my kids and I joined my parents on a three-generation camping trip to Canisbay Lake Campground at Algonquin Provincial Park. We spent our days going for bike rides, hiking, and visiting around the campfire, but my kids’ creative bug was…

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