Oka National Park

Le Calvaire Deux- Montagnes

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The Parc national d' Oka is one of the 24 National Parks in the Canadian province of Québec. There is a corresponding Parc national but what is a provincial park in the other provinces and territories.

The task of the established in 1990 in the extreme south of the province, only 23.7 km ² large park, is to obtain a forest type or to regenerate, which is rare in Canada. The park borders over 7 km of the Lac des Deux Montagnes, a widening of the Ottawa River.

History

In 1974, the borders of the future parks have been established. In 2005, the area of ​​the park was still largely used for agriculture or forestry, only 0.1 % of the local areas could recover from the economic exploitation. Also within the park area complicate fragmentation and species depletion to preserve biodiversity, as is the fact that around a third of the species was not originally represented here.

Flora and Fauna

Search migratory birds in large numbers on the field, just as there are turtles and small mammals, but also white-tailed deer. Their number and distribution was studied until 2010. The situation is similar on the fish stocks, such as the Lac de la sauvagine from.