Prescribed Fires Underway In Prince Albert National Park
Parks Canada is conducting a prescribed fire in the southwest corner of Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan.
- By NPT Staff - April 23rd, 2021 2:30am
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Canada Promises Funding To Conserve Sir John Franklin’s Shipwrecks
The Canadian government has proposed $15 million over three years to accelerate archaeological and conservation work for the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror from the legendary and ill-fated Franklin Expedition of 1845.
- By Jennifer Bain - August 2nd, 2024 5:57am
Parks Canada Releases Minister's Response To Round Table Consultations
Canadians wants Parks Canada to work harder to make racialized communities, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ2+ communities and people living with disabilities feel welcome in its parks, conservation areas and historic sites.
- By Jennifer Bain - August 2nd, 2024 5:57am
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.
- By NPT Staff - April 15th, 2021 2:30am
Gros Morne Considers Unusual Spruce Budworm Spraying Request
To spray or not to spray? It’s not usually a question that Parks Canada has to grapple with, but the Newfoundland and Labrador government has asked Gros Morne National Park to allow aerial spraying to quash an emerging outbreak of the dreaded spruce budworm.
- By Jennifer Bain - August 2nd, 2024 5:57am
Historic Yukon Sternwheeler To Honour Indigenous Connections
For years, the romantic story of the S.S. Klondike revolved around the historic sternwheeler that travelled the Yukon River from 1929 to 1955 carrying silver-lead ore, freight, passengers and tourists. But the tale of how a steam-powered boat retired and found new life as the S.S. Klondike National Historic Site glossed over negative parts of its legacy.
- By Jennifer Bain - August 2nd, 2024 5:57am
Quebec Site Gets Funding Injection To Showcase Canada's First Steel Industry
The Forges du Saint-Maurice National Historic Site in Quebec is getting $613,000 to rehabilitate its access road, redesign its Grande Maison reception area and install new interpretive panels along its interpretation circuit.
- By Jennifer Bain - August 2nd, 2024 5:57am
Park People: Conversation With A Climate Change Scientist
Growing up in Nova Scotia, attending a high school with an outdoor education focus, taking a sustainable forestry course that asked her to connect how clearcutting killed Atlantic salmon, and joining annual field trips to Kejimkujik National Park, Hilary Harrop-Archibald always had her eye on an eventual career with Parks Canada.
- By Jennifer Bain - August 2nd, 2024 5:57am
Kouchibouguac National Park Seeks Public Input On Management Plan
Whether you’ve realized it or not, when you visit one of Canada’s national parks or national historic sites, there’s likely a management plan guiding all the Parks Canada decisions on how to protect, present and operate the site. Every decade or so, management plans come up for review and the public can weigh in.
- By Jennifer Bain - August 2nd, 2024 5:57am
Culturally Responsible Pathway Almost Complete In Vancouver Island Park
“Going in the right direction on the trail.” That’s the literal translation of the Nuu-chah-nulth name — ʔapsčiik t̓ašii — for a new paved pathway in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, but there are layers of possible meaning. The name can refer to a person’s personal life journey or to being mindful of the environment and all living things. When the name is used collectively, First Nations Elders say “the land we walk on is made from the dust of our ancestors — in our life journey, we walk it carefully, respectfully, with humility and dignity.”
- By Jennifer Bain - August 2nd, 2024 5:57am
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