The Coquitlam Park Spark team nominated us for an award for our work in Harper Park, and we won! We picked up the certificate signed by the mayor (and free parks & rec passes for the summer) today. 🙂
Coquitlam Environmental Achievement Award Winners
Harperspark Anniversary
It’s been three years since we joined Coquitlam’s Park Spark team! We haven’t updated this website often in the past three years, but we have been in Harper Park almost every day since becoming Park Sparks in March 2021 (being outside in nature is more fun than writing blog posts). Since we started cleaning up the park, lots of other families have joined us, so we’re now just cleaning the Northeastern sections of the park (from Highland up Rock Trail, across Flywheel and Harper Road, and down Smiling Creek Trail).
Black-tailed deer
This juvenile black-tailed deer was spotted crossing the Dollar Trail, looking back at the two does up the trail.
(We sometimes see deer in the brush by the creek; they may have been disturbed by the arborists chipping the hemlocks that fell across the stairs near the Flywheel trail.)
Mama bear
Protective mama bear in the park today. Wee cub not pictured, as mama was huffing and growling, so we gave her space!
Snails’ Pace
We’re in the park daily—sometimes twice a day—but we have been posting at the pace of this Pacific Sideband snail! More to come as we ease into summer schedules.
Park Spark Swag
Garden lupins
Park Spark Pals
Spring Park Sparks
Mama bear and her three cubs
