PROVINCIAL PARKS 
     
    
   
   
    
     MARSHLAND ENCOUNTERS 
     
    
   
   
    
     Marshland Encounters is a nature hike with a difference! 
     
     Offered each Sunday afternoon during the summer months at Brudenell 
     
     River Provincial Park, this program takes participants into the heart 
     
     of the park's saltwater marsh where they encounter some rather humorous 
     
    
   
   
    
     characters, human and otherwise. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Devised last year by the park's program staff to be both enter- 
     
     taining and informative, the program has already become the most 
     
     successful, in terms of participation, naturalist program offered by 
     
     the Provincial Park system. Participants discover the history, ecology, 
     
     botany and agriculture of the marsh through a series of arranged I . 
     
     scenes as they follow a trail through the marsh. 
     
    
   
   
    
     "We are adding a floating bridge to the trail this year and 
     
     several new scenes to the program," said Jane Wilson, program supervisor 
     
     at the park. "These changes will make the program even more interesting 
     
    
   
   
    
     and hopefully provide for an entertaining natural history event." 
     
     Marshland Encounters is conducted each Sunday at 3:00 from late 
     
    
   
   
    
     June to early September and takes about 1% hours. There is no fee 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘and participants should bring appropriate footwear. 
     
    
   
   
    
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