Blissful World Ranger Day! – Ontario Parks Weblog
Ontario Parks employees sort out an enormous array of duties and challenges.
Our days are numerous. You would possibly discover us researching uncommon species, making use of First Assist expertise, sustaining protected and wholesome water methods, constructing a boardwalk, or welcoming households to a busy campground.
We’re stewards of our province’s most treasured pure assets. We’re educators, instilling a love of nature in new generations of Ontarians.
Internationally, World Ranger Day celebrates the great work that’s defending our parks, and commemorates park rangers killed or injured within the line of obligation in park organizations with high-risk actions.
We’re proud to maintain our parks protected and welcoming to guests, whereas defending our superb pure world.
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Alyssa (she/her)
That is Alyssa’s second yr at Sandbanks Provincial Park!
Alyssa has a really shiny and outgoing persona and makes coming to work pleasant, she is a really exhausting and devoted employee, and we’re joyful to have her on our crew!
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Wylan (they/them)
Wylan is an enthusiastic Discovery interpreter having fun with their second season working at Lake Superior Provincial Park.
As a member of the Discovery crew, Wylan’s numerous obligations embody aiding guests with journey planning, creating social media content material, wildlife monitoring surveys, and main applications corresponding to prop talks, guided hikes, and artwork workshops.
Wylan is enthusiastic about sharing the attractive biodiversity of the Lake Superior panorama with park guests, particularly wolves!
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Hailey (she/her)
A latest graduate of Trent College’s Environmental Science program, Hailey has been working in Ontario Parks for 5 years, this being her second yr as a park steward in Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands Provincial Park.
A lot of her time is spent defending this superb park and educating guests on how they will do the identical.
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Courtney (she/her)
Courtney began in Ontario Parks as a gate pupil over 20 years in the past.
She has labored in parks everywhere in the province, and is at the moment the senior park clerk at Murphys Level Provincial Park. She loves the challenges of the place and is consistently amazed by the great thing about the pure world.
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Shelagh (she/her)
That is Shelagh’s first yr with Murphys Level Provincial Park working within the park retailer!
She is worked up to have the ability to improve each customer’s expertise, whether or not via offering a particular memento, a scrumptious ice cream, or simply via being welcoming, pleasant and useful.
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Cambrian (he/him)
Cambrian is Anishinaabe from the Turtle Clan (Netmizaaggamig) with six years of park expertise in a wide range of roles, showcasing his adaptability.
At present working because the handbook employee at Blue Lake Provincial Park, Cambrian is all the time fixing issues, doing path upkeep, and serving to to maintain the park protected, clear, and working easily.
Matt (he/him)
Matt works as a useful resource warden at Sandbanks Provincial Park, managing invasive species, planning tasks, and guaranteeing persons are respecting the pure atmosphere.
He’s extraordinarily passionate and devoted to his work and is a good conservationist to be taught from!
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Calvin (he/him)
That is Calvin’s first yr with the Murphys Level Provincial Park Discovery crew.
Calvin’s targets for the long run embody working in biology and analysis. His favorite a part of his job is any time he is ready to get out on the paths.
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Kassidy (she/her)
Kassidy has been part of the Murphys Level Provincial Park upkeep crew for 5 years.
She thinks that one of the best a part of the job is the superb crew she works with and the colourful park group she will get to work together with on a regular basis.
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Gillian (she/her)
That is Gillian’s third yr working with Ontario Parks and her first yr as a park training assistant at Neys Provincial Park.
She is passionate in regards to the Boreal Forest at Neys, and she or he loves serving to campers discover and study it.
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Jake (he/him)
Jake is a nature fanatic, expert in identification and enjoyable details about birds. He’s very desirous to contribute his information to citizen science and invasives elimination at North Seashore Provincial Park.
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Angela (she/her)
That is Angela’s sixth yr working for Awenda Provincial Park because the assistant park clerk.
From mentoring employees to welcoming guests, Angela all the time goes above and past to make sure that the customer expertise is nothing wanting superb from the second they arrive on the park.
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Kyle (he/him) and Al (he/him)
This dynamic duo are Kyle and Al. They’re the driving pressure behind the well-oiled machine that’s the upkeep division at Awenda Provincial Park.
They take delight in guaranteeing the park and its services are stored in tip prime form and are all the time desirous to contribute and assist different departments. There is no such thing as a job too huge or too small for this crew.
Sara (they/she)
Sara is among the Discovery rangers at Sleeping Big Provincial Park.
It’s their first yr at Ontario Parks and so they have made such an unbelievable addition to the crew!
They’re all the time able to greet campers with a smile. Sara is tremendous devoted to sharing the wonders of nature with everybody who stops by the Customer Centre or joins certainly one of their Discovery Applications.
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Patrick (he/him)
That is Patrick’s fourth yr working for Ontario Parks and first yr as an operations technician at Awenda Provincial Park!
Patrick ensures that when guests come to Awenda, they will look ahead to a protected and pleasant expertise.
This previous winter, his dedication to protecting roadways clear and trails groomed meant guests acquired to get pleasure from among the best winter seasons they’ve ever seen in Awenda!
His real ardour for conservation and the atmosphere is plain as he’s all the time desirous to contribute and advocate for tasks supporting ecological integrity inside the park.
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Payton (she/her)
That is Payton’s fourth yr with Ontario Parks!
Payton’s favorite a part of working at Sandbanks Provincial Park is getting to assist clients have a memorable expertise! You’ll be able to usually discover her having fun with a run alongside Lakeview path after work.
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Michael (he/him)
That is Michael’s first yr in Discovery at Six Mile Provincial Park, however third yr with Ontario Parks.
He simply graduated from trainer’s faculty and enjoys interacting with totally different individuals and sharing details about the pure world.
He hopes to make connections with everybody that attends his applications, in order that they really feel extra impressed to understand and discover the outside.
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Maddie (she/her)
Maddie is the Retailer Lead at Sleeping Big Provincial Park.
Over the previous six years, she has labored in upkeep and on the gate home earlier than transferring to the park retailer.
She enjoys selecting and designing merchandise for the shop and manages the park leases program the place campers can hire canoes and kayaks to take out on Marie Louise Lake.
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Véronique (she/her)
Véronique is a proud French Canadian pupil from New Brunswick having fun with her first yr in Discovery at Mikisew Provincial Park.
She has a ardour for marvel and journey. You will discover her hanging out with Kip and serving to guests be taught to decelerate and discover on a regular basis magic in nature.
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Ruby (she/her)
That is Ruby’s first yr working at Fitzroy Provincial Park as a Discovery pupil.
She has proven actual drive and dedication in guaranteeing park guests get the chance to deepen their connection to nature via discovery programming.
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Hope (she/her)
Hope is among the park wardens at Sleeping Big Provincial Park.
That is her third yr with Ontario Parks, becoming a member of the park from Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park.
Hope is a pleasant face, and her favorite a part of her job is speaking to guests as she walks across the campground!
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Conor (he/him)
In his first yr with the Discovery crew at Driftwood Provincial Park, Conor brings a shiny outlook and a expertise for photography-capturing the sweetness in nature and sharing them in assist of group science.
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Arrowhead Provincial Park‘s employees siblings
Woah — we’re seeing double at Arrowhead Provincial Park!
Try these very good employees siblings:
Simmone (she/her) and Lauren (she/her)
Retailer Attendant Simmone and Scholar Ranger Lauren are opposites, certainly one of them is calm, cool and picked up and certainly one of them is a daring, witty firecracker!
Are you able to guess which one is which? Each might be joyful that can assist you at Arrowhead’s Customer Centre!
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Kailey (she/her) and Morgan (she/her)
Scholar Ranger Kailey and Scholar Ranger Morgan make an excellent, pleasant, dynamic duo.
Their dedication and hardworking attitudes are important to Arrowhead’s Park Retailer!
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Nadia Parsons (she/her) and Claire (she/her)
Scholar Park Ranger Nadia and Scholar Park Ranger Claire are two peas in a pod!
Their bubbly personalities go away Arrowhead’s guests with a smile on their face.
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Karlie (she/her) and Ty (he/him)
Scholar Park Ranger Karlie and Scholar Park Ranger Ty are an empathetic and comedic pair! They’ll exit of their technique to make the employees and customer’s expertise at Arrowhead memorable!
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Grace (she/her) and Mason (he/him)
Park Upkeep Employee Grace and Park Warden Mason are not any strangers to working collectively, they push and problem one another in the easiest way and are each essential to Arrowhead’s park operations!
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Emily Provincial Park‘s upkeep crew
Introducing the upkeep college students whose exhausting work and dedication hold Emily Provincial Park lovely!
You’ll discover these rangers across the park all the time prepared to provide a smile and a wave.
The park’s upkeep college students are enthusiastic about working outdoor and certainly one of their favorite issues about their job is the friendships they’ve made with their coworkers
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Sara (she/her)
Sara is a senior operations tech at Charleston Lake Provincial Park.
All the time smiling and filled with kindness, Sara goes above and past to assist each employees and guests!
Whether or not it’s serving to a colleague, aiding a camper, or answering a query, Sara is all the time there with a optimistic perspective and a willingness to assist.
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Shaine (she/her)
That is Shaine’s third season as a Discovery pupil at Sibbald Level Provincial Park.
She has labored on the Southeast Zone “Science Squad” science monitoring crew and as an interpreter. She loves speaking in regards to the aquatic life that may be present in Lake Simcoe and tips on how to correctly handle the lake!
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Emily (she/her)
Emily is an lively and devoted second yr upkeep pupil at Neys Provincial Park. She fortunately spends her days caring for the park and chatting with campers.
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An enormous thanks to all of the superb employees at Ontario Parks!
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