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Waterway Class Parks: Parks to protect recreational water routes and provincially significant terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to provide recreational and educational experiences. Wilderness Class Parks: Parks to protect large areas for nature, and provide low-impact recreation. Visitors must travel through these parks by foot only.
The Ministry of the Environment was originally established as a portfolio in the Executive Council of Ontario (or provincial cabinet) in 1972.. The ministry was merged with the Ministry of Energy to form the Ministry of Environment and Energy from 1993 to 1997, and briefly again in 2002, before being split back up again.
The list of provincial parks in the Canadian province of Ontario contains lists of more than 300 provincial parks in Ontario. These provincial parks are maintained by Ontario Parks. For a list of protected areas in Ontario, see the List of protected areas of Ontario. Northern Ontario. List of provincial parks of Northern Ontario; Southern Ontario
The St. Lawrence Parks Commission (French: Commission des parcs du Saint-Laurent) is a Crown agency of the Government of Ontario that manages parks and heritage sites along the shoreline of the St. Lawrence River in southeastern Ontario.
1978 – Ontario Provincial Parks: Planning and Management Policies are approved by Cabinet giving Ontario one of the world's leading parks planning systems. 1983 – The new land use planning system leads to the announcement of 155 new parks to be designated. 1985 – There are now 220 parks in Ontario encompassing over 5.5 million hectares of ...
L. La Cloche Provincial Park; La Verendrye Provincial Park; Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park; Lake Abitibi Islands Provincial Park; Lake Nipigon Provincial Park
These parks are administered by Parks Canada. National Marine Conservation Areas , while also under federal control, do not afford the same level of protection. The Canadian Wildlife Service , a division of Environment Canada , manages the National Wildlife Areas , Marine Wildlife Areas , and Migratory Bird Sanctuaries for the protection of ...
The Ministry of Natural Resources is a government ministry of the Canadian province of Ontario that is responsible for Ontario's provincial parks, forests, fisheries, wildlife, mineral aggregates and the Crown lands and waters that make up 87 per cent of the province.