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Bugaboo Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located in the central Purcell Mountains. It was established in 1995 as an amalgamation of Bugaboo Glacier Park, Bugaboo Alpine Recreation Area, and various adjacent lands. [ 1 ]
SOAR stands for Spirit of Adventure Rendezvous. It is held every three years in British Columbia for Girl Guides of all levels from all over Canada and abroad. SOAR 2011 was held in Agassiz, British Columbia, from July 23–30, 2011. Agassiz is a friendly agricultural community situated in the rich alluvial floodplain of the Fraser Valley.
The system encompasses 1,035 park units covering an area of about 14.1 million hectares (54,440 mi 2)—about 14.4% of the entire province—with over 6,000 km (3,700 mi) of hiking trails and approximately 12,700 campsites. It is the third largest park system in North America after national parks systems of Canada and the United States. [10]
The list of provincial parks of the British Columbia Central Interior contains the provincial parks located within this geographic region of the province of British Columbia. It includes parks from the three regional districts of Bulkley-Nechako , Cariboo , and Fraser-Fort George .
The British Columbia Parks and Protected Areas System is the collection of physical properties owned or administered by BC Parks, an agency of the British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. These protected areas are established by order-in-council under one of several different pieces of enabling legislation.
Itcha Ilgachuz Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Chilcotin Country of British Columbia, Canada. The park is 111,977 hectares in size and contains Far Mountain and Mount Downton , its two most prominent peaks.
The Rocky Mountains to the west of Pink Mountain is the only place in the province where wild Plains bison roam. [1] The 1,000+ (down from a high of about 3,500 some years ago) bison are not naturally occurring, but descendants of an escaped herd of 50 from those imported by local guide and outfitter R. Lynn Ross in 1971.
Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park is one of the oldest provincial parks in British Columbia, established in 1922. The park has an area of 320.35 km 2 (123.69 sq mi) and is located in the Selkirk Mountains in the West Kootenays region of BC. The park has three glaciers (Kokanee, Caribou, and Woodbury) that feed over 30 alpine lakes which are the ...