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Grab bag
100

This abundant flower is designated as Alberta's provincial flower.

Wild rose

100

This trail is located between the Tawayik Lake turn off and Moss Lake.

Hayburger

100

This animal dams the park's culverts.

Beaver

100

This is the longest serving staff member at the park.

Bonny

100

This is the gender of Parka, the Parks Canada mascot.

Female

200

This common tree is known to form super-organisms due to its clonal nature.

Aspen

200

This building is the oldest federal heritage building in the park.

Superintendent's residence

200

This animal bugles during rut.

Bull elk

200

This individual worked at a candy factory.

Les

200

There are this many cattle guards/Texas gates in the park.

Six

300

This spruce tree likes to grow in bogs.

Black spruce

300

This trail must be hiked to reach Paul Lake.

Shirley Lake Trail

300

This adult male waterfowl sports a blue bill and chestnut chest in the summer time.

Ruddy duck

300

These four staff members share dogs from the same litter.

James, Pinette, Kat, and Sarah

300

This annual meteor shower is Elk Island's most popular.

Perseids Meteor Shower

400

This plant that blooms in late June is named for having been used to stuff mattresses.

Northern bedstraw

400

This building was a product of a Depression-era labour camp.

The Pavilion

400

This hormone is the reason that male bison horns are larger and more symmetrical than female bison horns.

Testosterone

400

This staff member was born in Georgetown, GY.

Ramona

400

This superintendent was known for poaching bison.

Ellesworth Simmons

500

This grass-like plant is a major source for bison in the winter. 

Sedge

500

This building was one of many that made up the Tawayik Warden Station.

The barn

500

This animal has a different name depending if it is summer or winter.

Short-tailed weasel/Ermine

500

This family refused to leave the park when it was established, so worked as gatekeepers. 

The Oster family

500

This lake's Cree name means "middle" or "two-spirited".

Tawayik