Nature interpretation activities have been part of the Algonquin Park experience for a long time. In this episode, I’ll take you down memory lane and share with you the origins of what used to be called the Algonquin Park Interpretive Program, now called the Discovery Program, and introduce you to some of the incredible people who made it all possible.

Note that the sources for much of this content is my own research compiled for my book Treasuring Algonquin: Settlement Stories from 100 Years of Leaseholding.  as  well as  Roderick MacKay’s Algonquin Park: A Place Like No Other, George Warecki’s J.R. Dymond Scientific Research, Nature Reserves and the Interpretive Program in Algonquin Provincial Park 1931-1954 and several articles in The Best of The Raven, Algonquin Park’s Newsletters that have been published in 3 volumes by the Friends of Algonquin Park.  All of these are available from the Friend of Algonquin Park’s online bookstore at www.algonquinpark.on.ca.

This episode's musical interlude is provided with thanks from Ian Tamblyn at www. iantamblyn.com called Black Spruce by Ian Tamblyn.  It can be found on his 2007 album Superior Spirit and Light.