GEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES OF A NATIONAL PARK AND A PROVINCIAL PARK ON THE GASPE PENINSULA

• Main Author: Margaret F. Boorstein
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Perce
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.553.2519; http://geographyplanning.buffalostate.edu/MSG 2002/14_Boorstein.pdf

Peninsula, Quebec, both established in the I970s, mesh unique geologic landscapes, biogeographic ecosystems, and human geographic environments. While Forillon is a Canadian national park, Bonaventure Island and Perce Rock, though actually a Quebec provincial park, is referred to as a Quebec national park because of its management policy. Forillon was formed to protect colonies of seabirds and marine mammals, arctic-alpine plants, and ten different rock formations in one narrow strip, as well as artifacts of the cod-fishing economy. Bonaventure Island Park, also designated as a national bird sanctuary, is the home of the largest colony of northern gannets in North America, as well as geologic formations of the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. The parks allow the public 10 appreciate geology, marine life, and cultural history. They are spectacular examples of physical and human geography. One often thinks of national parks as natural entities, but their perpetuation as ecologically balanced entities involves proper management from a human and a natural perspective. INTRODUCTION Mediterranean. Although the dried-cod industry is now largely defunct, the cod-industry heritage continues to permeate the history and the current Forillon National Park and Bonaventure economy. The two parks serve to preserve a record Island and Perce Rock Provincial Park, established in of that heritage as well as marine life and geological