Northshore Parks Celebrate National Parks Day
Parks Day on the Northshore
by Karina Hunter
White Lake Provincial Park Natural Heritage Educator Winona helps participants create paper bag puppets.
In 2010, Canada’s Parks Day recognized the International Year of Biodiversity and Northshore Provincial Parks offered visitors a variety of events to celebrate the annual day.
At White Lake Provincial Park, Natural Heritage Educators (NHE) Winona, Leanne and Anne welcomed participants at the Day Use Area where there was face painting, sunflower seed spitting competitions, a jelly been guestimate competition and a crafts table where visitors of many ages enjoyed making paper bag puppets and colouring images of nature’s biodiversity.
Neys Provincial Park Natural Heritage Educator George Timmerman shows a pair of curious participants the claws on a black bear pelt.
At Neys Provincial Park Visitor Information Centre, NHE staff members, George Timmerman and Nicole Vella gave an interactive presentation on the importance of protecting biodiversity, niches occupied by flaura and fauna at the park and how Provincial Parks help conserve biodiversity. Attendees were encouraged to participate in the presentation, at one point an adult who represented a moose, and two children, representing a deer and a caribou, joined Timmerman and Vella helping to illustrate how creatures can seem to occupy similar niches though no two ever do.
Neys attendees, including residents of nearby communities as well as campers from Thunder Bay, Schreiber and Southern Ontario, were invited to return for a biodiversity hike on Monday July 19th.
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- Neys Provincial Park Natural Heritage Educator George Timmerman shows a pair of curious participants the claws on a black bear pelt.
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- Emeraude Charron enjoys escaping the waves of Lake Superior at Neys Provincial Park.
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- Contestants of the Sunflower Seed Spitting Contest at White Lake Provncial Park.
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- Face painting at White Lake Provincial Park’s Canada Parks Day celebrations.
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- White Lake Provincial Park Natural Heritage Educator Winona helps participants create paper bag puppets.
…Below, Emeraude plays with the waves of Lake Superior prior to our attendance at the Canada Parks Day Biodiversity Presentation at Neys Provincial Park July 17th, 2010.
