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Alberta's system of provincial parks began with the striking of a committee on parks by then Premier J. E. Brownlee in 1929. This led to the passage of the Provincial Parks and Protected Areas Act in 1930 and the formation of the Provincial Board of Management to oversee the system.
This is a list of provincial parks in the Canadian province of Alberta. They are maintained by Alberta Parks. For a list of protected areas in Alberta, ...
The Ministry of Forestry and Parks (MFP) is a creation of the Alberta government. As of July 2024, it was led by Todd Loewen and its mandate was "To grow Alberta's manufactured wood products and forestry sector, preserving and managing Alberta's public lands and provincial parks." [1] [2] [3]
Natural Resources Conservation Board Act (NRCBA) [3] "The purpose of this Act is to provide for an impartial process to review projects that will or may affect the natural resources of Alberta in order to determine whether, in the Board’s opinion, projects are in the public interest, having regard to the social and economic effects of the projects and the effect of the projects on the ...
This park is within Alberta's Rocky Mountains. The park was originally named Kananaskis Provincial Park, but was renamed after Peter Lougheed, premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985, when he retired in 1986. [1] One of the largest provincial parks in Alberta, it encompasses 304 square kilometres (117 sq mi) around Kananaskis Lakes.
Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park is a provincial park in Alberta, Canada, located immediately west of Canmore, 105 km (65 mi) west of Calgary.. This provincial park is situated at the foot of Mount Rundle within the Canadian Rocky Mountains along Bow Valley and the Trans-Canada Highway, at an elevation of 1,400 m (4,600 ft), and has a surface of 4.5 km 2 (1.7 sq mi).
Alberta Forestry, Parks and Tourism Bluerock Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park located in Kananaskis Improvement District , Alberta , Canada . It was established on 24 July 2001 [ 4 ] and has an area of 12,719.59 hectares (31,430.79 acres; 49.11 sq mi). [ 3 ]
Birch River Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in northern Alberta, Canada. It was established on 14 May 2018 [ 2 ] and covers 331,832 hectares (1,281.2 sq mi). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The park is contained in the Lower Athabasca Region Land Use Framework finalized in 2012. [ 4 ]