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Dave Hervieux, Regional Resource Manager, Peace Region, is the woodland caribou management coordinator with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development's fish and wildlife division. [27] "Alberta Environment estimates that the province’s caribou population has declined by nearly two thirds since the 1960s, including the ...
Michael G. Sullivan is a Canadian biologist specializing in fisheries, [1] [2] [3] wildlife and land use management. [4] He is known for his role in the active recovery of Alberta's collapsed walleye population. [5] [3] [2] [1] He currently serves as the provincial fish science specialist for Alberta Environment and Parks [6]
In 1974, the Alberta Government recommended a park be established in the headwaters of the Castle River. The government intended to place the West and South Castle watersheds into a protected area. In 1977, the Eastern Slopes Policy created areas of "Prime Protection, Critical Wildlife, and General Recreation in the Castle area". [6]: 19
Alberta's provincial parks and protected areas are managed by Alberta Parks and Alberta Government's ministry of Alberta Environment and Parks whose mandate is to protect the province's natural landscapes in Alberta. As of December 2023, the province of Alberta manages 77 provincial parks and 34 wildland provincial parks.
The park is in the Kazan Uplands subregion of the Canadian Shield Natural Region in the Alberta classification system. [6] In the National Ecological Framework for Canada used by Environment and Climate Change Canada, the park is in the Uranium City Upland ecodistrict of the Tazin Lake Upland ecoregion in the Western Taiga Shield ecoprovince of the Taiga Shield ecozone.
The parks system expanded rapidly with 46 new parks established between 1951 and 1971, focused mostly on recreational campgrounds near lakes. As well in 1959 the Provincial Parks Branch was established, headed by a Provincial Parks Commissioner, who reported to the parks board.
Dillon River Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in northern Alberta, Canada. It was established on 14 May 2018 and has an area of 191,545 hectares (473,320 acres). [2] [3] The Government of Alberta announced the park's creation through its approval of the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan Land Use Framework in August 2012. [5]
There are several different departments and agencies that deal with land use in Alberta, however Alberta's provincial parks are managed by Alberta Parks, which since 2022 is part of the Ministry of Forestry, Parks and Tourism [2] whose mandate is to protect the province's natural landscapes in Alberta, as well as the Ministry of Environment and ...