Parks Blog

Tag: ecological integrity

  • 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…

  • Subject: Please do not disturb

    In today’s post, we’ve compiled emails from some of the wildlife that call provincial parks home. Keep wildlife wild, respect wildlife, please do not disturb wildlife. These are common phrases… but what do they really mean? To help break it down, we have compiled a few recent emails from some of our furry and feathered…

  • Are you an ethical wildlife photographer?

    You’ve recently unwrapped the latest iphone or a shiny new digital camera, perhaps an SLR with some fancy lenses. Now you have itchy shutter fingers. You’re ready to point our camera at something spectacular and capture a beautiful memory forever. But where to go? Not to brag, but Ontario Parks are beautiful, iconic places. Covering nearly…

  • From the abundant to the rare, parks protect them all

    Today’s post comes from Natural Heritage Education Supervisor Alistair MacKenzie at Pinery Provincial Park. The landscape of Ontario Parks is renowned for being strongholds for myriad species, both common and rare. A primary objective of Ontario Parks is the maintenance and restoration of ecological integrity, and the strengths of our protected areas are evident in the…

  • Why social trails are damaging to provincial parks

    Park-lovers are natural explorers, and we love our visitors’ passion for adventure. Sometimes, we see our visitors create their own shortcuts by cutting through sensitive habitat. This is otherwise known as creating a social trail. Social trails can have a wide range of damaging effects on protected areas, and we’d like to ask our visitors…

  • The trouble with stick forts

    We don’t want to discourage kids from finding magic in nature. But we’re also kind of like the Lorax; we need to speak for the trees (and all the other critters that live in provincial parks).

  • Building a safe haven with Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park’s artificial turtle nesting site

    Today’s post comes from Rose Brandt, a Discovery student at Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park.  If you’ve been to Bagwa Day-Use Beach at Samuel de Champlain, you might’ve wondered what that seemingly random pile of sand beside the beach is all about. That would be our artificial turtle nesting site!

  • Can we bring painted rocks to the park?

    Art and nature go together like columbine flowers and hummingbird tongues. Indigenous artists express their relationship to land through art; Canada’s Group of Seven found inspiration in several Ontario Parks; parks offer residency programs, and our park visitors find many artistic ways to capture their memories. We love it when visitors share their artistic creations with us.…

  • What makes the Great Lakes so great?

    In today’s blog, Discovery Project Program Coordinator Jessica Stillman reflects on our mutual relationship with the Great Lakes. Our human history is reflected in their waters. The Great Lakes capture our past, influence our present, and inspire our future.  Imagine the stories they could tell. These bodies of water are called the Great Lakes for…

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