{"id":1638,"date":"2024-02-01T21:14:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T05:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pkols-mountdouglas.ca\/wp\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2024-02-01T21:14:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T05:14:57","slug":"the-wisdom-of-our-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pkols-mountdouglas.ca\/wp\/2024\/02\/01\/the-wisdom-of-our-national-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wisdom of Our National Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The\u00a0current version\u00a0of the\u00a0National Parks Act\u00a0provides the most robust language to date, stating that \u201cmaintenance or restoration of ecological integrity, through the protection of natural resources and natural processes,\u00a0shall be the first priority\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009when considering all aspects of the management of parks.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These National Parks and Reserves are about preserving our regional ecosystems. Most of these parks are not easily accessible, and many are difficult to access. PKOLS – Mount Douglas, a much more accessible park, is an excellent example of beginning to apply these principles. Saanich has the opportunity to preserve a park with a more diverse ecologically threatened system than the National Reserve on Sydney Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an article by Claire Campbell in The Walrus, she talks about how preserving nature for the benefit of future generations evolved out of the national park systems.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the concepts was to look at the country’s ecological diversity and ensure that each ecosystem had an area of national parks that preserved its uniqueness for future generations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The map below shows the 39 distinct natural regions of the country and the parks that have now been set aside in these areas. We are in Natural Region 2, “Strait of Georgia Lowlands” in which PKOLS-Mount Douglas is found. PKOLS-Mount Douglas is likely to better represent the unique ecosystems of this region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\u00a0current version\u00a0of the\u00a0National Parks Act\u00a0provides the most robust language to date, stating that \u201cmaintenance or restoration of ecological integrity, through the protection of natural resources and natural processes,\u00a0shall be the first priority\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009when considering all aspects of the management of parks.\u201d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkols-mountdouglas.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkols-mountdouglas.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkols-mountdouglas.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkols-mountdouglas.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkols-mountdouglas.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/pkols-mountdouglas.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/pkols-mountdouglas.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkols-mountdouglas.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkols-mountdouglas.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkols-mountdouglas.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}