Grands-Jardins National Park (French: Parc national des Grands-Jardins, pronounced [paʁk nɑsjɔnal de ɡʁɑ̃ ʒaʁdɛ̃]) is a provincial park, located in the Unorganized Territory of Lac-Pikauba, in the Charlevoix Regional County Municipality, an administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in Quebec, Canada.

[1] The Grands-Jardins National Park is a protected area for the conservation of the natural heritage of the Charlevoix region in which certain human activities are permitted.

It is one of the central areas of the Charlevoix World Biosphere Reserve [fr], status granted by the UNESCO in 1988,[2] just seven years after the park was created.

The park is managed by the Quebec government thanks to the Société des établissements de plein air du Québec (SÉPAQ).

[3] SÉPAQ also offers discovery workshops to learn more about the flora and fauna of the park and to raise awareness of the fragility of ecosystems and the services they provide.

[4] Grands-Jardins National Park protects an environment that is highly representative of the natural region of the Jacques-Cartier Lake Massif [fr].

A few years after the fire, the forest begins to regain its appearance and slowly resumes its cycle of natural succession.

There are populations of moose, reindeer, black bear, red fox, porcupine, common loon, spruce grouse, wolves, lynx and several other species.

There are also seven species likely to be designated threatened or vulnerable, namely Arctic char, golden eagle, peregrine falcon, common nighthawk, chimney swift, rock vole, cougar and southern bog lemming.

We thus find the following mammals: several species of shrews (the great shrew, the common shrew, sooty, palustrine and pygmy), the star-nose mole, the snowshoe hare, the red squirrel, the large flying squirrel, the common marmot, Canada beaver, several species of voles (red-backed gapper, fields, rocks, Cooper's lemming), Phenacomys, muskrat, some species of mouse (deer, wood jumping and field jumping), American porcupine, coyote, gray wolf, red fox, black bear, raccoon, long-tailed weasel, stoat, river otter, woodland caribou, white-tailed deer, moose, American marten, American mink, striped skunk, cougar and Canadian lynx.

The territory of the Grands-Jardins Park is an important environment for the calving, rutting and winter feeding of the woodland caribou and plays a decisive role in the conservation of the species.

The bear prefers open and semi-open sites where the vegetation constituting a good part of its diet is more abundant and rarely ventures into the dense forest of the park.

The common loon, golden eagle, black-backed woodpecker, Barrow's goldeneye, peregrine falcon, Bicknell's thrush and spruce grouse are among the birds found here.

The black-backed woodpecker plays an important role in burnt forests since it creates cavities in dead trees in order to feed on the insects that adore this environment.

Lakes and other marine environments are interesting habitats for a variety of amphibians (plethodontidae, bufonidae, hylidae, ranidae and colubridae species) and fish.

The park helps protect a site of exceptional character that are cladonia spruces, a sample of taiga which is unique for southern Quebec.

Some research projects are currently taking place in the park and focus mainly on the many lakes present in Parc.

[25] The first is the restoration of tributaries and outlets from lakes to improve the quality of the spawning grounds, which is carried out in partnership with the Quebec Wildlife Foundation.

The third is the restoration of borrow pits abandoned since 2007, led by the team of Line Rochefort of the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences at Laval University.

The goal of the project is to accelerate the vegetal restoration of the borrow pits of the park created by the extraction of sand and gravel which have been abandoned for 40 years.

Rigorous monitoring of fishing quotas, identification of spawning grounds and characterization of numerous water bodies allow the park to minimize the pressure on the aquatic ecosystem and promote a favorable environment for the populations of Arctic char and brook trout that depend on it.