Thousand Islands National Park deer, porcupines, beavers, foxes, skunks, raccoons, turkey vultures, rabbits, squirrels, chickadees, and weasels. Thousand Islands National Park Thousand Islands National Park (established 1904), formerly known as the St. Lawrence Islands National Park, is located on the 1000 Islands Parkway in the Thousand Islands Region of the Saint Lawrence River. The islands are actually the worn-down tops of ancient mountains. This region, the Frontenac Axis, connects the Canadian Shield from Algonquin Park in Ontario to the Adirondack Mountains in New York. The park consists of 21 islands plus many smaller islets, 2 mainland properties and a visitor centre at Mallorytown, Ontario
Thousand Islands (Cocoa Beach) Several areas of the Thousand Islands were filled but not fully developed, leaving large areas of uplands. During the late 1960s Brevard County Mosquito Control began dredging the Thousand Islands south of Minutemen Causeway, resulting in conversion of salt marsh to upland dredge spoil with the state-owned C-34 impoundment. Native wetlands are dominated by red, black, and white mangroves. Succulent marsh contains saltwort, annual glasswort, perennial glasswort, sea blight, and shoreline seapurslane. The transition zone between salt marsh and upland is dominated by bushy seaside oxeye ("Borrichia frutescens" (L.) DC.) and buttonwood ("Conocarpus erectus" L.). Transition areas dominated by graminoid