Category: Park Stories
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The long road to Lake Superior Provincial Park's Dark Sky Preserve
Today’s post comes from Charlotte Westcott, a Discovery Program staff member at Lake Superior Provincial Park. As the sun sets, the stars begin to appear. Like old friends, their familiar glow brings us home no matter how far away our house may be. Our friendly acquaintances, the constellations, trace their way across the sky. The…
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Weekend warriors: northern edition
This blog comes from park besties: Alysa Cortes and Zuzanna Radecki! They’re back for another recap of their weekend adventures living and working at a different provincial park. This season, we moved 17 hours from home and 14 hours from our previous park, Killbear Provincial Park, to work at the world-renowned paddling paradise: Quetico Provincial…
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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…
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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…
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Costume ideas from Ontario Parks
Are you stumped trying to figure out what to be for Halloween this year? To help you out, we pulled together some ideas to inspire the perfect park Halloween get-up!
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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,…
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There and back again: a Quetico tale
Today’s blog comes from Quetico Provincial Park Canoe Route Technician Gavin Morito-Karn. In 2019, I spent my summer paddling across a large chunk of the vastness of one of Canada’s waterways. Brigitte Champaigne-Klassen (also a past member of Quetico’s staff) and I travelled from Cochrane, Alberta (just west of Calgary) to Nym Lake on the border…
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Fourth graders become species-at-risk superheroes!
Parks alone are not enough to save species at risk. As we’ve continued our species-at-risk blog series this summer, we’ve been able to share stories of the amazing species that call parks home and the work being done to protect them. Now we want to introduce you to the newest team of superheroes taking up…
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Restoring a rare ecosystem at Holland Landing Prairie Provincial Park
Today’s post comes from Laura McClintock, a senior park naturalist at Sibbald Point Provincial Park. Tucked away in a neighborhood an hour north of Toronto lies a sliver of one of the rarest ecosystems in Ontario. Holland Landing Prairie Provincial Park is part of the last 3% of tallgrass prairies left in our province. The prairie at…