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Tag: Pinery

  • Seeing spots at Pinery Provincial Park

    Today’s post comes from Tanya Berkers, Resource Management Group Leader at Pinery Provincial Park. You may be seeing spots the next time you visit Pinery’s Visitor Centre, and hopefully the birds will see them too! The park has just installed thousands of vinyl dots on the windows to make them visible to our feathered friends.

  • Back to school at Pinery

    Today’s blog comes from Nicole Benn and Annalise Twomey, senior park interpreters at Pinery Provincial Park. Cicadas are singing, Monarchs are migrating, and students and teachers are preparing! Back to school season is upon us, but returning to class does not mean exploring Ontario Parks is over. We can still build memories in our parks by…

  • Halloween 2019 at Ontario Parks

    By the pricking of our thumbs, something wicked this way comes… We’ve got tons of haunted Halloween events coming up this month! And don’t forget to check out events page for late-breaking additions. Will you be visiting the ghosts of campers past this October?

  • Exploring the fear of the unknown

    Today’s post comes from Olivia Pomajba, a summer student at Rondeau Provincial Park. “I hold no terrors in these hands I am but a vessel to unknown lands There is nothing to fear but fear itself Of what, the memory of love or wealth You will take my hand, make no mistake A new life starts…

  • Top 10 spots to watch the sunset

    Are you a sunset-chaser? It shouldn’t surprise you that some of the best views of brilliant colours are in our own provincial parks.

  • Pinery goes to battle for bats

    Today’s post comes from Natural Heritage Education Supervisor Alistair MacKenzie and Bat Stewardship Technician Heather Sanders. Did you know Pinery Provincial Park has been a bat research hot spot for more than four decades? We’ve collaborated with research groups at York University, Western University and the University of Waterloo. Much of what we know about Ontario…

  • Dynamic dunes at Pinery

    Today’s post comes from Alistair MacKenzie, our Supervisor of Natural Heritage Education and Resource Management at Pinery Provincial Park. In a province dominated by the rock of the Canadian Shield, sand is rare. If we combined all of Ontario’s coastal sand dunes together, they would only make up less than 0.5% of our province’s land. We can…

  • Rolling out the red carpet at Pinery

    Today’s story comes from Alistair MacKenzie, Natural Heritage Education and Resource Management Supervisor at Pinery Provincial Park. I started out my career saving lives.  It was a hard job. Working conditions were awful. I was constantly being asked to bend and twist to what someone else needed me to do. I was dragged through the mud…

  • Protected: Managing deer populations in provincial parks

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