Echo. The Algonquin interior program was expanded to 

 demonstrate recreational skills to prospective interior users 

 and to discourage littering. Interpretive staff were instructed 

 at two in-service training courses, the Parks Certificate 

 course and the Law Enforcement course. 



Research data were gathered in an ambitious program of 

 environmental analysis for both parks facility planning and 

 interpretive messages. Besides an intensive, broadly-based 



— 4 — 1 A X X cjata collection program expanded for Algonquin Park, his- 



— 17 — 1 X X torical and archaeological material were researched at each 



— 1 — — X — of the following parks and reserves: Lake Superior, Mattawa 



— 3 — 3 X X River, Samuel de Champlain, Fort La Cloche, Methodist 



Point, Sibbald Point, Peterborough Petroglyphs, Darlington, 



-|5 6 2 X Pinery, Killarney, Rock Point, Iroquois Beach, Missinaibi 



X 45 51/2 3 X Lake, Neys, Inverhuron, Burns Lake, Lake St. Peter, Rainy 



IYj -] X River Mounds, Quetico, and Blacksands. 



NATURE RESERVES 



X 100 — 2 1 X Nature Reserves are Class V parks as described under the 



— 10 — .5 2 X Park Classification System (1967), or they may be zones 

 X 15 M 5 2 X within other classes of parks. These designated reserves will 



be living museums, encompassing both unique and repre- 

 g -] X sentative segments of our flora, fauna, geology and physiog- 



-^ X raphy. Nature reserves serve an important role in research 



21 X ^"'^ education when such use does not damage the values 



■^ X fhe reserve was established to protect. 



3 2 X To assist the Branch, there is an advisory committee to 



the Minister, consisting of experts in all fields of the natural 



., w sciences and representatives of naturalists in the public 



sector. This committee is an indication of the broad fields of 

 interest and study which should be represented in a com- 

 pleted system of nature reserves. The committee is working 



— — X X with the Branch to establish such a system. They also con- 



— — X X cern themselves with recommending specific areas which 



— — X X should be established. 



. X X 



y Teams of ecologists (totalling eight persons) spent the 



entire summer of 1970 in the field carrying out inventory 

 surveys of Provincial Parks, Park Reserves, and some specific 



— IX X locations on the Niagara Escarpment. These ecological 



— 2 X X inventories provide a description of the environment which 



— V2 X X is used for master planning, for site planning, and for inter- 



— — X X pretive planning. Where very high natural values are dis- 

 covered, a nature reserve may be established. Twenty-two 



-| X different areas, varying in size from a few acres to many 



2 X square miles, were surveyed. 



— — — — A co-operative arrangement with the International Bio- 



— — 1 X logical Programme was strengthened, and data indicating 

 EC 4 2 X areas possibly suitable for nature reserves were exchanged. 



— — — — The programme concentrated on patented lands and Crown 



— — 1 X lands other than parks, park reserves and park proposals. 

 continued . . . 



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