Grasslands National Park
Parc national des Prairies


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Experience the solitude and wonder of the Southern Saskatchewan prairie landscape by day or night. Evidence of those who came before us is at your feet. Dinosaur fossils, the mass extinction boundary, hearth sites, tipi rings, bison drive lanes, and cellar depressions set among today’s living prairie.

Découvrez la tranquillité et les merveilles des paysages des prairies du sud de la Saskatchewan, de jour comme de nuit. Les témoignages de ceux qui nous ont précédés se trouvent à vos pieds. Vous pourrez observer des fossiles de dinosaures, la limite d’une extinction massive, des sites de foyers, des cercles de tipis, des couloirs de bisons et des caves au cœur des prairies animées.

Source: Parks Canada Website (2022)


Established: 1981

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Documents
Management Documents

Management Plan / Plan directeur (Parks Canada, 2010)

Management Plan / Plan directeur (Parks Canada, 2022)

Multi-species Action Plan for Grasslands National Park of Canada [Proposed] / Plan d'action visant diverses espèces du parc national du Canada des Prairies [Proposition] Species at Risk Act Action Plan Series (Parks Canada, 2016)

Multi-species Action Plan for Grasslands National Park of Canada / Plan d'action visant des espèces multiples dans le parc national du Canada des Prairies Species at Risk Act Action Plan Series / Loi sur les espèces en péril Série de Plans d'action (Parks Canada, 2016)

State of the Park Report / Rapport sur l'état du parc (Parks Canada, 2008)

Historical Documents

Coyote (Canis latrans) predation of colonial rodents facilitated by Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) (Thomas S. Jung, extract from The Canadian Field-Naturalist, Vol. 135 No. 2, 2021, ©The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club)

First Observations of Mormon Metalmark, (Apodemia mormo) Oviposition Behaviour in Canada (Ashley Anne Wick, Johane Janelle, Shelley Pruss and Nadir Erbilgin, extract from The Canadian Field-Naturalist, Vol. 126 No. 1, 2012, ©The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club)

First Record of the Plains Minnow, Hybognathus placitus, in Canada (R. M. Sylvester, S. E. Freeling and C. R. Berry, extract from The Canadian Field-Naturalist, Vol. 119 No. 2, 2005, ©The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club)

From Wood Mountain to the Whitemud: A Historical Survey of the Grasslands National Park Area / De Wood Mountain à Whitemud : étude historique de la région du Parc national des Prairies History and Archaeology//Histoire et archéologie 67 (Donald M. Loveridge, Parks Canada, 1983)

GeoVistas: Zahursky Point / La pointe Zahursky (©Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences, 2011)

Leaf Area Index estimation using remotely sensed data for Grasslands National Park (Y. He and X. Guo, extract from Prairie Perspectives: Geographical Essays, Vol. 9, University of Winnipeg, 2006)

Management Plan for the Mormon Metalmark (Apodemia mormo) Prairie Population in Canada / Plan de gestion de la population des Prairies du mormon (Apodemia mormo) au Canada Species at Risk Act Management Plan Series (Parks Canada, 2021)

Proximity to Hibernacula and Road Type Influence Potential Road Mortality of Snakes in Southwestern Saskatchewan (Ashley N. Fortney, Ray G. Poulin, Jessica A. Martino, Dennilyn L. Parker and Christopher M. Somers, extract from The Canadian Field-Naturalist, Vol. 126 No. 3, 2012, ©The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club)

Recovery Strategy and Action Plan for the Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) in Canada / Programme de rétablissement et plan d'action visant le chien de prairie (Cynomys ludovicianus) au Canada Species at Risk Act Recovery Strategy Series (Park Canada, 2021)

Restoring Grazing-Induced Heterogeneity in Grasslands National Park of Canada: Landscape-scale experiment and long-term monitoring plan, March 9, 2006 (Darcy C. Henderson, March 9, 2006)

Supplemental Climate Information for Grasslands National Park (Scott Parker, Parks Canada, April 4, 2019)

Xplorers / Xplorateurs (Parks Canada)

Videos

The Grasslands Project — A Rancher's View 8:00 (Scott Parker, National Film Board of Canada, 2016)



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Last Updated: 20-May-2024