About this Walk
Hosted by staff from Alberta Wilderness Association, this walk is a chance to experience Fish Creek Provincial Park with all your senses!
Fish Creek Provincial Park is an important protected area within the vast urban landscape of Calgary. We will have the opportunity to slow down and notice the plants and animals returning or waking up after the winter. The wetlands along the creek provide important habitat for many birds and animals, as well as storing and cleaning the water in Fish Creek. Learn more about the creatures that call the park home and perhaps cross paths with some of them.
There will also be the opportunity to discuss issues facing Alberta’s wild places, including drought with AWA Conservation Specialist Phillip Meinzter.
Quadrant: SE
Meeting Place: Entrance to Fish Creek Provincial Park at the corner of Canyon Meadows Drive and Acadia Drive
Walk Duration: 2 hour(s)
Areas of Interest: Environment |
Accessibility: Uneven Terrain
Led By: Lindsey Wallis, Phillip Meintzer
Inner City: No
About the Walk Team
Jane's Walks wouldn't exist without the help of our dedicated team of volunteers.
Walk Leader(s): Lindsey Wallis, Phillip Meintzer
Lindsey Wallis has spent her lifetime exploring Fish Creek Provincial Park, and learning about the bird, plant and animal life there from her biologist father. She works to spread the love of Alberta’s natural spaces in her role as the Adventure for Wilderness Coordinator, an outreach program of Alberta Wilderness Association.
Phillip Meintzer is a settler environmentalist who grew up in southwest Calgary next to Bebo Grove in Fish Creek Provincial Park. He works as a conservation specialist with Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) and is responsible for files that include Alberta’s boreal region, climate change, oil and gas issues (including the oilsands), and wildlife such as wood bison, boreal woodland caribou, and fishes.