Kootenay National Park of Canada

Natural Wonders & Cultural Treasures

Climate and Geology

• Airborne Pollutants: our chemical heritage
• Weather and Climate

Ecosystems

• Ecosystem Based Management in Canada's National Parks
• Water: Liquid Gold

Natural Processes

• 2003 Wildfires
  • Fighting Fire with Fire
  • Fire Suppressant and Retardant use in the 2003 Wildfires
  • The Vermilion Pass Fireguard
• Fire in Canada's National Parks
• Paleoecology and Fire History
• Vermilion Pass Burn
• Where there's fire, there's smoke
• Glossary of Fire Terminology

Plants and Animals

Plants

• Mountain Pine Beetle
• Rooting Out the Invaders: non-native plants
• Whitebark Pine: restoring a keystone species

Animals

• The Badger
• Canada Lynx in the Rockies
• The invisible highway toll: road kill
• Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
  • Bighorn: a year in the life
• Wolf Research and Monitoring

Species at Risk

• Radium Hot Springs’ Remarkable Rubber Boa
• Species At Risk and Canada's Mountain National Parks
• The Redstreak Restoration Project

History of the Park

• David Thompson - Discover Canada's Greateast Explorer NEW!
• Dipping into History - The Radium Hot Springs Pools
• Historic Milestones of Kootenay National Park
• The History of the Kootenay National Park Area
• The History of the Paint Pots
• The History of the Parkway
• Origin of Place Names
• Park Heritage Notes
• People of National Historic Significance

National Historic Sites

• National Historic Sites of the Mountain Parks Management Planning Newsletter
• People of National Historic Significance

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