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Caribou Mountains Wildland Park is a large wilderness area in northern Alberta, Canada. It is located in the Caribou Mountains, immediately west of Wood Buffalo National Park in a remote backcountry area. The closest communities in Alberta are Fort Vermilion and Garden River.
The Caribou Mountains reach an elevation of up to 1,030 m (3,380 ft), making them the highest in northern Alberta. They rise north of the lower Peace River and are bounded to the north and east by Wood Buffalo National Park. The area was unglaciated during the last glacial period. [2]
The Cariboo Mountains are the northernmost subrange of the Columbia Mountains, [1] [2] which run down into the Spokane area of the United States and include the Selkirks, Monashees and Purcells. The Cariboo Mountains are entirely within the province of British Columbia, Canada. The range is 7,700 square kilometres (3,000 sq mi) in area and ...
The peak of Mount Columbia, within Jasper National Park, is the highest point in Alberta, second highest in the Canadian Rockies and 28th highest in Canada. The Caribou Mountains are located in the northern extremity of Alberta, forming an elevated plateau in the northern plains and wetlands.
Caribou Mountains can refer to: Caribou Mountains (Alberta) a mountain range in Alberta, Canada Caribou Mountains Wildland Park , a park within these mountains
The areas set aside by further Canadian National Parks – Glacier National Park (Canada), the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Provincial Park and Protected Area, Valhalla Provincial Park – are not as conducive for the specially adapted caribou as these areas are mostly ice, rock, alpine meadows and sub-alpine parkland and are lacking in the ...
The Banff National Park population of Central Mountain DU8 caribou was extirpated in 2009 when the last five were killed by an avalanche. [74] A herd is protected in the Caribou Mountains Wildland Park in Alberta. [73] The Redrock-Prairie Creek (RPC) herd, located north of Jasper, in northwestern Alberta is also endangered.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee has been the most-visited park since 1944, [10] and had almost 13 million visitors in 2022. [11] In contrast, only about 9,500 people visited the remote Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska in 2022. [11]