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Alberta Forestry, Parks and Tourism. Fort Assiniboine Sandhills Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in Woodlands County, Alberta, Canada. The park is 7,903 hectares (19,530 acres) in area and was established in 1997. [3] The park is contained in the Upper Athabasca Land Use Framework. [4]
Weed Lake. Weed Lake is a wetland near Langdon, Alberta, Canada. [1] It is the home to many natural wildlife including several species of birds and fish. Weed Lake is located about 20 km (12 miles) east of Calgary, immediately north-east of Langdon. It is a 600 ha (1,500 acres) wetland that is regionally important as waterfowl habitat.
Fish Creek Provincial Park. Fish Creek Park is an urban provincial park that preserves the valley of Fish Creek in the southern part of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is bordered on three sides by the city, and on the west by the territory of the Tsuu T’ina Nation (Sarcee), a First Nation. Much of the park remains in a natural, forested state.
Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae. Scolopacidae is a large diverse family of small to medium-sized shorebirds including the sandpipers, curlews, godwits, shanks, tattlers, woodcocks, snipes, dowitchers, and phalaropes. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil.
Frank Lake is a restored wetland located 6 km (3.7 mi) east of High River, Alberta, 50 km (31 mi) south of Calgary, near Blackie. The lake is controlled by Ducks Unlimited Canada for wildlife management purposes, and is an Important Bird Area and Key Biodiversity Area. It is one of four Alberta lakes with the same name.
Wetlands can be found in Canada's broad ranges of ecozones spanning across the provinces and territories. In Canada, there is approximately 1.29 million km 2 of wetlands which in turn covers 13% of Canada's terrestrial area. [5] Canadian wetlands are predominantly located within the Boreal Shield which accounts for 25% of the existing wetland ...
Aspen parkland refers to a very large area of transitional biome between prairie and boreal forest in two sections, namely the Peace River Country of northwestern Alberta crossing the border into British Columbia, and a much larger area stretching from central Alberta, all across central Saskatchewan to south central Manitoba and continuing into small parts of the US states of Minnesota and ...
Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. Pigeon Lake Provincial Park. Spray Valley Provincial Park. Williamson Provincial Park. Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park. This is a list of protected areas of Alberta. Protected areas are managed by the Government of Canada or the Government of Alberta. The provincial government owns 60% of Alberta's landmass [1 ...