Parks Blog

Tag: ecological integrity

  • Turtle eggs and salamander spawn: spring monitoring at Grundy Lake

    Today’s article comes from Emily Wright, Discovery Program Leader at Grundy Lake Provincial Park. Spring at Grundy Lake is a quiet time of year. The lake waters are cold from the melting snow and ice, birds are just starting to arrive from their long migrations, and visitors are few and far between. Park staff, however,…

  • Keeping up with the Canada Jay

    Today’s blog post comes from bird researchers Alex Sutton and Koley Freeman, PhD candidates at the University of Guelph. In the world of Canada Jays, winter means one thing: it’s breeding season! Canada Jays are common in Algonquin Provincial Park. Continuing a 55 year-old tradition, a dedicated team of researchers is monitoring breeding pairs. This…

  • Just roll with it: how one park adapts to an unpredictable shoreline

    Today’s post comes from Amy Hall, a Resource Management Project Technician at Pinery Provincial Park. Many of our visitors have been coming to Pinery for decades, witnessing the park change in many ways over time. If you’ve been here in the last few years, you may have noticed that our beach is constantly changing month…

  • Why we should all aspire to be naturalists

    In today’s post, Algonquin Provincial Park‘s David LeGros wishes everyone a happy Darwin Day! Today, it seems that we know so much about the world around us: how it works, what lives here, and what threatens it. Truthfully, it would be arrogant to think that we know it all — we don’t. Discovering and explaining…

  • International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022

    Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Our scientists are absolutely integral to Ontario Parks, working as researchers, biologists, ecologists, and more! Take a look at a few of our awesome women scientists:

  • Life in a vernal pool in Ontario

    Happy World Wetlands Day! Today we celebrate the important ecological contributions of wetlands. Wetlands, like the one pictured above, come in many shapes, types, and sizes. In today’s post, Mark Read, chief park naturalist at Murphys Point Provincial Park, takes us on a journey through one of the wetlands you may find at our parks. 

  • Forever protected: why Mark S. Burnham belongs

    Our “Forever protected” series shares why each and every park belongs in Ontario Parks. In today’s post, Social Media Specialist Alexander Renaud tells us Mark S. Burnham’s story. For almost two centuries — as the area around Mark S. Burnham Provincial Park turned from wilderness to farm fields, and eventually, to a bustling city —…

  • On fire

    Some of the technology to fight forest fires was first developed almost a century ago. The province has used this technology for many decades to prevent and extinguish wildfires in Ontario Parks and other protected areas. Over time, we discovered something interesting. Aggressively extinguishing fires didn’t stop forest fires. It only postponed them. We needed…

  • Darlington's daring wetland restoration

    In today’s post, Zone Ecologist Corina Brdar shares the exciting restoration story that’s been unfolding at Darlington Provincial Park. There’s nothing like seeing an idea turn into reality, is there? Especially when the idea is an enormous one, and it takes tons of cooperation from all kinds of players.

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