Canada's Mountain Parks Target Aquatic Invasive Species
Parks Canada is asking water recreationists to help prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species across the mountain national parks.
Kootenay National Park
Canada’s Most Visited National Parks And Sites For 2022/2023
The good news is that visitation is finally rebounding at Canada’s national parks and sites. The bad — but unsurprising — news is that visitation hasn’t quite recovered to pre-pandemic levels. Those are two key takeways from Parks Canada’s newly released attendance data from 2022-23.
- By Jennifer Bain - May 22nd, 2023
Canadian Mountain Parks Unite To Conserve Two Types Of Pine Trees
Parks Canada has released a short film that tells the story of whitebark and limber pine conservation in the mountain national parks, and what conservation specialists are doing to safeguard and recover the future of these trees.
Major Restoration Announced For Kootenay National Park’s Aquacourt
Kootenay National Park in British Columbia is getting $13 million (49.6 million USD) to restore the Radium Hot Springs Aquacourt.
Parks Canada Recovers 45 Stolen Fossils
A person who removed 45 fossils from Kootenay National Park has been slapped with a $20,000 fine (about $15,000 USD) and given a five-month conditional sentence with a curfew order.
- By Jennifer Bain - May 13th, 2022
Restoring Grassland Habitat In Kootenay National Park
Mountains and oceans may be the most visible features of British Columbia’s national parks, but grasslands are some of its most important habitats. Home to thirty percent of the province’s species at risk, grasslands cover only one percent of the province’s land area and are endangered landscapes. Wildfires that renew grasslands were suppressed for decades as people protected forests and built structures.
- By Jennifer Bain - November 17th, 2021
Park People: Conversation With A Historian
Parks Canada historian Meg Stanley has a succinct and evocative way of describing her job: “It’s the art of fitting a story into a space, and taking a story and expressing it in a three-dimensional way.”
- By Jennifer Bain - June 21st, 2021
How Parks Canada Embraces Dialogic Interpretation
There was something about the guided tour of New York’s Tenement Museum a few years back that resonated as the engaging guide asked about our thoughts and experiences and went where the conversation took us instead of just droning on with a dull prepared script.
- By Jennifer Bain - June 15th, 2021
Public Invited To Weigh In On Plans For Canada’s Mountain Parks
Parks Canada has officially launched Indigenous and public engagement on the draft management plans for the mountain national parks.
Visitor Stats Reveal How Canada's Parks And Historic Sites Fared In 2020
Even a global pandemic couldn’t knock Banff National Park off the top of the list of Canada’s most visited national parks. Rouge National Urban Park saw more visitors than ever before as urbanites looked for quick and close outdoor escapes. And a Quebec island that once served as a quarantine station for new immigrants, and is now a national historic site, enjoyed a summer surge in popularity.
- By Jennifer Bain - March 13th, 2021
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