Essay On Algonquin Park

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Algonquin Provincial Park, a park that located between Georgian Bay and the Ottawa River in Central Ontario, was established in 1893 and it is the oldest provincial park in Canada. The Park is also a functioning wildlife reserve. In the Park, 7% area is pure wilderness, and 23% area is wilderness and recreation. In those areas, there are at least 34 kinds of trees, over 40 mammals, over 30 kinds of reptiles and amphibians, 54 different species of fish, and more than 130 breeding birds. First of all, of all the living things that inhabit Algonquin Park, none are more important than plants. Plants almost completely blanket the landscape of the Park. Generally, there are two kinds of trees, deciduous, which are typically found in western side of the park, and coniferous, which are more common in the eastern part of the park. There are some examples of deciduous trees, Maple, Beech, Oak, and Birch. In Algonquin, there is a highway with many maples on both sides, if visitors look around, when they are driving on that road in autumn; the color of both sides of the highway …show more content…

Algonquin Park contains over 1500 lakes with at least 230 of these lakes containing native Brook Trout population. Thus, it has the greatest concentration of Brook Trout lakes and streams in the world. Because the limitation of fishing, and many lakes and streams exist in the Park, fishes have chance to grow, and the growth rate should be positive in every year. Algonquin Park has some rules for protecting fishes. For example, no live baitfish. That rule will protect water bodies from non-native fish. Algonquin Park checks species of fish every year, if there are some species of fish without natural enemy, they will try to clean those fish, because they will keep growing, until they fill in all of lakes and streams, and extirpate all other

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