ENV201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Algonquin Provincial Park, Ducks Unlimited, Parks Canada
Document Summary
Initially, land was protected for social reasons: neighbourhood parks etc - opportunities to provide gathering places for people, recreational activities for children. Wealthy residents set aside land that allows them to engage in social activities: hunting. More recently, emphasis on recreational component: algonquin national park. Conservation movement: latter part of nineteenth century, early 20th century: protecting land so it can be utilized - groups like ducks unlimited came out (protects wetlands across na) Became interested in protecting wetlands because a group of duck hunters saw wetlands where they were hunting were being destroyed. Needed to be a healthy population of ducks for their hunting of fowl etc. Modern version of this = ecotourism: costa rica explicitly protects large slots of land to attract international tourism; supports local economy. Long history of resource extraction in protected areas: allowed/encouraged resource extraction (timber, mining, hunting/gathering) - still today we have those activities occurring. Algonquin park: has always supported recreational activities, allows timber extraction.
