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The park is in the Alberta foothills so the terrain is small, domed mountains, ridges and valleys. The Sheep River valley runs through the center of the park. Elevations range from a high of 2,789 m (9,150 ft) at the peak of Bluerock Mountain in the far northwest to a low of 1,322 m (4,337 ft) in the valley of the Sheep River where it exits the ...
Alberta Parks Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in Wood Buffalo , northern Alberta , Canada . Kitaskino, means “our land” in Cree and Nuwenëné means “our land” in Dene ; the two languages are spoken by the First Nation communities in the area. [ 4 ]
During the Last Glacial Period, the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered most of Alberta. When the ice retreated , meltwater rivers deposited sand over the area containing the park. Aeolian processes , the prevailing winds pushed the sand into dunes and created a dune complex within the present-day park which is part of larger dune field extending ...
La Biche River Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in northern Alberta, Canada.The park was established on 6 June 2000 and had an area of 16,843.975 hectares (41,622.37 acres; 65.03 sq mi). [3]
Whitehorse Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in west-central Alberta, Canada.The park was established on 26 August 1998 and had an area of 17,439.886 hectares (43,094.90 acres; 67.34 sq mi). [4]
Name Sub-region Established Image Coordinates Antelope Hill Provincial Park: Special Area No. 2: 2014-12-04 [2: Aspen Beach Provincial Park: Lacombe County
Ghost River Valley, Alberta (1970) The Ghost River Wilderness Area is a provincially designated wilderness area in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta protecting the headwaters of the Ghost River. [2] It was established in 1967 and it, as one of the three wilderness areas of Alberta, has the strictest form of government protection available in Canada.
Alberta's registered traplines were once exactly that: lines which followed a creek or other feature, but in the 1960s they were switched to a system of trapping territories. [ 1 ] In British Columbia "the registered trapline system continues to be the primary system for setting harvest guidelines and managing furbearing animals".