[5] The Keewatin Glacier contributed a 4 foot layer of ground moraine.

[6][5] Birch Island supports coniferous forest of jack pine and black spruce.

[6] Moose, black bear, wolf, lynx, snowshoe hares and white-tailed deer are residential mammals of this park.

[6] The area was designated a provincial park by the Government of Manitoba on November 1, 2010.

[9] The park is located within the Pelican Lake Ecodistrict in the Mid-Boreal Lowland Ecoregion within the Boreal Plains Ecozone.