Parks Research Forum of Ontario - 1999 Annual Meeting

PRFO 1999 Annual Meeting
Guelph, Ontario
April 22 and 23

Southern Ontario presents special challenges for heritage conservation. This part of the province is marked by many expanding urban centres, shrinking rural areas, fragmented natural systems, and a landscape much impacted by human settlement, industry and recreation. Presentations at the meeting dealt with topics ranging through the 2,000 year old cedars on the Niagara Escarpment, urban parks in the Greater Toronto Area, marketing tourism, and climate change and national parks in Ontario, reflecting the complexities of the southern Ontario situation.

PRFO 1999
Table of Contents

Land Use History, Landscape Change and the Role of Parks and Protected Areas
Nancy Pollock-Ellwand and Gordon Nelson

State of Parks and Protected Areas in Southern Ontario: Ecological Perspectives
Paul Gray, Tom Beechey and Sheila Boyd

Panel Commentaries
Science, Information and Research: Ontario's Parks and Protected Areas in South Eastern Ontario
John Immerseel

Keynote Address
Conservation Site Selection: Ecoregional Planning for Biodiversity
Mark Anderson, Frank Biasi, and Steven Buttrick

Panel Commentaries on Planning and Management Challenges, Research Needs and Actions in Southern Ontario
We Require a Southern Ontario Conservation Needs Template
W. R. Stephenson

Planning and Management Challenges, Research Needs and Actions in Southern Ontario: Crossing the disciplinary and scalar gaps in parks and protected areas.
Stephen D. Murphy

Rapporteur's Remarks on the Special Session of the 1999 Parks Research Forum of Ontario
Tom Nudds

Market Analysis of the Trent University Nature Areas for Interpretive Planning
Cailin Clarke

Researching and Communicating the Value of Provincial Parks
Tatania Stroud, Barbara Carmichael and Gordon Nelson

Standards for Service Quality: Is There A Place for Them in the Parks Canada System?
Candace Nykiforuk and Paul Eagles

Linking Societal Values with Biosphere Reserve Imperatives: Opportunities for Awareness
Nicolas de Salaberry and Donald G. Reid

Planning for the Conservation of the Island Arc in the West Basin of Lake Erie
Bree Iisaka, J.G. Nelson, Kenneth Van Osch and Bill Stephenson

Georgian Bay Greater Ecosystem Bioregional Study - A Greater Park Ecosystem Approach to Resource Conservation
Brent Tegler, Mirek Sharp and Mary Ann Johnson

A Hierarchical Approach to Reserve Network Design in the Eastern Georgian Bay Region
Paul Zorn and Justin Quirouette

Regional Approaches to Planning for Protected Areas and Conservation
Lucy M. Sportza

Relinquishing Boundaries: Metaphors for Conceptualizing Institutional Systems
Beth Dempster

The Status of Natural Heritage Planning in Carolinian Canada
Cynthia Lussier and Patrick L. Lawrence

Assessing the Environmental Quality of Marina and Small Craft Harbours in Ontario
Stirling L.W. Todd, Jane Irvine and J. Gordon Nelson

An Assessment of Research in Ontario Provincial Parks from 1936-1998
Cynthia Lussier, Ken Van Osch and Gordon Nelson with Tom Beechey, Dan Mulrooney, Robert Davidson and Stefano Forrazzani

Impacts of Experimental Hiking and Mountain Biking in Deciduous Forest
E. Thurston and R. J. Reader

Issues, Options and Concerns at Komoka Provincial Park: Public Participation in the Environmental Assessment Process
Jennifer L. Durley

Trail System Planning, with Specific Reference to Provincial Parks in Ontario
Jim Murphy and John Marsh

Ontario Parks Legacy 2000: Planning and Research Dimensions
T. J. Beechey, J. E. Duncan, W. B. Sargant, P. A. Guthrie and D. M. Powell

Recent Research and Information Activities in Ontario Parks
D. R. Mulrooney, R. J. Davidson, T. J. Beechey and G. Cordiner

Priority Sites for Conservation Action in Ontario: Applying the Provincial Natural Heritage Database
Jarmo V. Jalava, Peter J. Sorrill and Helen G. Godschalk

Climate Change and National Parks in Ontario: A Screening Level Assessment
Derek Armitage, Frances Gertsch, Andrew Giles, Kevin Huang, Bonnie Hui, Jennifer Lenton, Daniel Scott and Roger Suffling

Grazing Impacts of White-tailed Deer or "Culling Bambi to save the forest"
Saewan Koh, Dawn R, Bazely and Mika Timciska

Algonquin Park Wolves: Losing Their Ecological and Population Integrity
John B. Theberge, Mary T. Theberge and Hilary Sears

Developing a Methodology for Identifying Significant Woodlands
Lori Ann Riviere and Suzanne McInnes

An Overview and Assessment of Prairie and Oak Woodland Vegetation at Bronte Creek Provincial Park
Anthony G. Goodban

An Ecological Assessment of the Long-term Survival of Ancient Populations of Eastern White Cedars on Cliff Faces of the Niagara Escarpment
Peter E. Kelly and Douglas W. Larson

Building on the ONE Monitoring Program: Integrating Monitoring Programs in Protected Areas on the Central Niagara Escarpment
Robert J. Milne, Deborah Ramsay, and Anne Marie Braid

Algonquin Ecosystem Headwater Study: Tyne Lake Watershed
Sarah Ingwersen, Graham Mewett, Mike Wilton and David Euler

Applying Criteria And Indicators To Assess Integrity Of A Boreal National Park And Adjacent Forest Management Units
Andrew Promaine

Representation and Conservation of Rare Plants in Ontario's Carolinian Zone Provincial and National Parks
Jennifer M. Line, Madeline J. Austen, Michael J. Oldham and Peter J. Sorrill

Pesticide Accumulation in Point Pelee Amphibians
Ronald W. Russell, Stephen J. Hecnar, Gary Mouland and G. Douglas Haffner

Relative Importance of Patch Size and Landscape Forest Cover on Forest Birds
Michelle Lee, Lenore Fahrig and Kathryn Freemark

Monitoring Cumulative Effects of Landscape Change on the Frontenac Axis: a Preliminary Investigation
Ian Thornton

The Morris Tract Provincial Nature Reserve: A New Gem For Ontario's Provincial Parks System
Jane M. Bowles

Prescribed Fire in an Eastern White Pine Stand in Pukaskwa National Park
Mark Crofts

Tree Species Distributions in North Central Ontario: Recent Observations in Pukaskwa National Park
M. Crofts and L. Parent

Abstracts
Evaluating the Success of Deciduous Forest Restoration in Southwestern Ontario, Canada
Stéphane M. McLachlan and Dawn R. Bazely

The Landscape Genetics of Canis species in Ontario: Unraveling Ontario's Canis-soup
Bradley White, Paul Wilson, Sonya Grewal, Hilary Sears, John Pisapio, John Theberge, Mary Theberge, Angela Granacki, Ian Lawford, Jennifer Heal, Dennis Voigt, Maria de Almeida and Paul Paquet

Pukaskwa National Park and the 1998 White River Forest Plan Review: A New Definition for Transboundary Ecosystem Management
Frank G. Burrows

Restoration Ecology of Cirsium Pitcheri Along Lake Huron Sand Dunes
Jennifer Rowland and M. A. Maun

Restoration of Red Cedar Savanna Plant Communities in Point Pelee National Park
Nancy Falkenberg, Dawn R. Bazely and Gary Mouland

Assessing Ecosystem Conservation Plans (ECPs) for Some Canadian National Parks
J. Gordon Nelson, Patrick Lawrence and Heather Black

The Distribution of Aquatic Macrophytes in the Old Ausable River Channel
Johan Wiklund and M. Anwar Maun

Recent Establishment of an Isolated Population of Ixodes Scapularis, the Vector of Lyme Borreliosis, at Point Pelee National Park, Ontario
L.R. Lindsay, T.H. Akwar, I.K. Barker and D. Reive

The Wainfleet Bog Is in Your Backyard: Understanding the Total Influencing Physical and Cultural Factors to Ensure Successful and Appropriate Site Rehabilitation and Protection
Kim Frohlich