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The buffalo pound was a hunting device constructed by native peoples of the North American plains for the purpose of entrapping and slaughtering American bison, also known as buffalo. It consisted of a circular corral at the terminus of a flared chute through which buffalo were herded and thereby trapped.
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".
Alberta, with an area of 661,848 square kilometres (255,541 square miles), is the fourth-largest province after Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia. [29] Alberta's southern border is the 49th parallel north, which separates it from the U.S. state of Montana. The 60th parallel north divides Alberta from the Northwest Territories.
Swan Hills is a town in northern Alberta, Canada. It is in the eponymous Swan Hills , approximately 80 km (50 mi) north of Whitecourt and 62 km (39 mi) northwest of Fort Assiniboine . The town is at the junction of Highway 32 and Grizzly Trail , and is surrounded by Big Lakes County .
[2] [5] The park is a successful collaboration between the Mikisew Cree First Nation, the governments of Alberta and Canada, and petroleum industry partners in the area. Teck Resources, Imperial Oil, and Cenovus Energy returned oil leases to the Athabasca oil sands which underlay the area. [6] This enabled the land to be turned into a park. [7]
Hunting Hill is a summit in Alberta, Canada. [3] It is located 319 kilometres (198 mi) from Alberta's capital city, Edmonton . [ 4 ] It has a peak elevation of 778 meters (2,552 ft) above sea level, with prominence of 3 meters (9.8 ft) compared to the surrounding area.
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]
Elk Island National Park is a national park in Alberta, Canada, that played an important part in the conservation of the plains bison. The park is administered by the Parks Canada Agency. This "island of conservation" is 35 km (22 mi) east of Edmonton , along the Yellowhead Highway , which goes through the park.