Ontario Master Naturalist program heads to the Bruce Peninsula

May 29, 2019 – Orillia, ON

Discover beauty and biodiversity in the South Bruce Peninsula this summer with Lakehead University’s Ontario Master Naturalist program.

A partnership with Ontario Nature, the Ontario Master Naturalist Program is aimed at naturalists and those dedicated to environmental stewardship, and is designed to broaden participants’ knowledge and expertise of the natural world through formal training and guidance.

“There is such a strong, active naturalist community out there that has a great appetite for the type of research and education that this program provides,” explained Bob Bowles, award-winning Orillia-based naturalist and program coordinator. “We are hoping that this program will also help to provide the foundation from which naturalists, new and old, can expand their studies and research.”

Plants, reptiles, rocks and wetlands are just a few of the topics that participants will delve into during the program. The eight-day session will run from July 13 to 20 and involves seven modules that combine fieldwork and in-class instruction.

Participants will receive a certificate after successfully completing the Master Naturalist program. 

Details, including registration information, can be found online at lakeheadu.ca/masternaturalist or by contacting masternaturalist@lakeheadu.ca.

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Media contact:  Jaclyn Bucik, Marketing & Communications Associate, 705-330-4008, ext. 2014, or jbucik@lakeheadu.ca

 

Lakehead University has approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and 2,000 faculty and staff in 10 faculties at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead is a fully comprehensive university: home to Ontario’s newest Faculty of Law in 44 years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and faculties of Engineering, Business Administration, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, Science & Environmental Studies, Natural Resources Management, Education, and Graduate Studies. Maclean’s 2019 University Rankings place Lakehead University among Canada's Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities and in 2018 Research Infosource named Lakehead Research University of the Year in its category for the fourth consecutive year. Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.

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