PARKS 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Provincial Parks are among various sectors in the province 
     
     working toward adoption of new recycling programs. We hope 
     
     to place the program initially in seven or eight parks as a 
     
     pilot and eventually extend it to the remainder. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     It is anticipated that we will adopt a depot system with 
     
     separation of waste into several categories. The program 
     
     would offer information at the gate to park visitors on 
     
     location and use and will enlist co-operation through 
     
     education. " 
     
    
   
   
    
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     We have had park naturalists for the last few years in Mill 
     
     River, Cedar Dunes, Cabot Beach and Brudenell Provincial 
     
     Parks. Strathgartney will be added to the list this season 
     
     at the urging of a new "This is your Park" community group 
     
     supporting the park. This site has much potential for nature- 
     
     programs and needs a more diverse schedule of activities both 
     
     in and around the park. Activity details are now being 
     
     developed which will be announced in June but will certainly 
     
     focus around the varied woodland and stream habitat. The 
     
     nature trail is there now however for those of us who enjoy 
     
     the maple woods as much in the spring as in the fall. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Parks are also hoping to initiate a systems study of 
     
     significant rivers in the province this season in conjunction 
     
     with the Canadian Heritage Rivers Board. A systems study is 
     
     the first of three stages in a process which can culminate in 
     
     recognition of one or more candidates as Canadian Heritage 
     
     Rivers. It produces a comparitive evaluation of the merits 
     
     of each river under the values recognized by the Board, being 
     
     natural heritage, human heritage and recreational 
     
     opportunity. A river can be nominated for recognition as a 
     
     Canadian Heritage River in the third stage of the process for 
     
     significance in any one or combination of these values. This 
     
     initial sthdy could provide a management tool for the 
     
     province as well, once rivers are ranked under each of the 
     
     three values. -Doug Murray