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Glacier National Park provides important habitat for a wide range of bird species. As the most diverse land vertebrates, birds are an important indicator of ecosystem health. Yearly data are collected at these sites using audio recorders to determine trends in diurnal avian species abundance by...

This line layer describes hiking trails for which Parks Canada has a responsibility. This includes trails found in national parks, national historic sites, and national marine conservation areas. Data is not necessarily complete - updates will occur weekly.

Line layer that shows the locations of lockstation gates. (See Gates_Barriers_Portails_Barrieres for other gates and fences). Data is not necessarily complete - updates will occur weekly.

Remote sensing techniques are used to monitor forest productivity in the park’s coastal ecodistricts: White River Plains and Coastal Hills. Forest productivity is measured using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Landsat TM imagery (Landsat 5, 7 and 8) choosing dates of peak...

In 2022, scientists from Parks Canada, Audubon, the Canadian Wildlife Service and Birds Canada published an analysis of projected changes in bird assemblages due to climate change within the Canadian National Park System (Gahbauer et al. 2022, Projected changes in birds assemblages due to climate...

Parks Canada recognizes the historic and ongoing responsibilities of Indigenous peoples in the stewardship of cultural heritage of their ancestral territories and homelands. The Agency has been working to advance cooperative management arrangements with Indigenous peoples at the cultural heritage...

Parks Canada recognizes the historic and ongoing responsibilities of Indigenous Peoples in the stewardship of natural and cultural heritage of their traditional territories. To this end, the Agency has been working to advance cooperative management with Indigenous peoples at the heritage places...

Parks Canada’s long-term goal is to establish at least one national marine conservation area in each of Canada’s marine regions. Once completed, the system of national marine conservation areas will represent Canada’s 29 marine regions spanning its three oceans and the Great Lakes. The purpose of...

Parks Canada supports Indigenous peoples and the implementation of S.35 rights for their ongoing use of traditional territories (including lands and waters) for traditional or modern cultural practices, in natural and cultural heritage places.

This document describes Parks Canada’s plan to implement the Directive on Open Government in order to better engage citizens in the protection and presentation of places that represent Canada’s natural and cultural heritage. This plan is based on a Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) template, and...

Contains a complete list of National Parks and National Historic Sites

This master list contains Parks Canada fees for services, facilities, products and rights and privileges as well as travel trade fees effective July 9, 2010. The user fees have been set consistent with the requirements of the User Fees Act and under the authority of the Parks Canada Agency Act....

Parks Canada’s Preapproved Routine Impact Assessments (PRIA) are approved environmental management and mitigation measures for defined classes of routine, repetitive projects or activities with well understood and predictable effects. They are intended to maximize efficiency, consistency and...

Parks Canada Agency led a series of climate change adaptation workshops across Canada from 2017 to 2019, with support from the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Culture and Heritage Table. The workshops aimed to identify the pressing impacts of climate change on cultural resources at select heritage...

Annual visitation statistics for national parks and national historic sites in Canada.

Canadian support for the protection and presentation of national parks and national historic sites (national telephone survey). Full report is available at: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/pwgsc-tpsgc/por-ef/parks_canada/2019/index.html

This report, which is tabled under the Service Fees Act and the Directive on Charging and Special Financial Authorities, contains information about the fees that Parks Canada had the authority to charge in the 2018 to 2019 fiscal year. This report contains information about all fees that are...

Benthic macro-invertebrate diversity, stream hydrology, water chemistry, climate, geology, and landcover are collected using a standard protocol for the assessment of stream condition. The overall scope or aim of this measure is the use of a reference condition approach model capable of assessing...

Elk Island National Park uses the Area Burned Condition Class (ABCC) method to evaluate the ecological impact of fire on the landscape and the success of utilizing fire to maintain a mosaic of vegetative composition and structure for healthier populations of native species. Area burned is derived...

In partnership with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Parks Canada monitors salmon populations on 5 key indicator streams by annually measuring the “escapement” value of salmon stocks in each watershed. ‘Escapement’ is the number of adult salmon that have escaped predation and...