The BLESS Summer Nature Centre is going mobile this summer.
The Big Lake Environment Support Society put out a call June 4 on its Facebook page for a nature interpreter “to conduct nature education in and around Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park” this summer.
BLESS has run a free nature education program out of the log cabin near St. Albert Trail and Sturgeon Road each summer for many years and typically hires a student to run it.
That program wasn’t possible this year due to pandemic-related physical distancing requirements – the cabin is pretty cramped – so the plan this year is to change it up, said BLESS spokesperson Miles Constable. Instead of crafts and games in the cabin, this year’s program would be mostly about interpretive nature walks between the John E. Poole wetland and the BLESS shelter near Riel Recreation Park.
“It’s a lot harder to contract any kind of a virus outside,” Constable explained, and a lot easier to maintain physical distance between people.
Constable said BLESS plans to hire its new interpreter in about a week and has already received about 20 applications. The summer nature program would likely start at the end of June and run on weekdays.
