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The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (abbreviated RMWB) [5] [6] is a specialized municipality in northeast Alberta, Canada. It is the largest regional municipality in Canada by area (105650.88km2 | this number includes Wood Buffalo Nation Park of Canada) [ 7 ] and is home to oil sand deposits known as the Athabasca oil sands .
The largest and westernmost parcel is immediately south of Wood Buffalo National Park and shares its western border with Birch River Wildland Provincial Park. The eastern border covers the Athabasca River for the northernmost township 104 (6 miles (9.7 km)) and then west of Chipewyan Indian Reserve 201G .
Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo is a largely rural riding in the northeast corner of Alberta. Municipally, the riding consists of the northern part of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo and almost all of Improvement District No. 24. The riding is home to the bulk of industrial activity relating to the Athabasca oil sands.
A wood buffalo is another name for a wood bison. Wood buffalo may also refer to: Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo, a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada; Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, a specialized municipality in northern Alberta, Canada; Wood Buffalo National Park, a bison reserve in Alberta and Northwest Territories, Canada
Former students have excelled in national math and science competitions, and Wood Buffalo's annual delegation for the Canada-Wide Science Fair (CWSF) has been composed mostly of Westwood students. [4] The school has also produced one Schulich Leader Scholar (2016) and numerous Loran Scholar nominees. The school's science fair reputation has ...
Improvement District No. 24, or Improvement District No. 24 (Wood Buffalo), [4] is an improvement district in Alberta, Canada. Coextensive with the portion of Wood Buffalo National Park in northeast Alberta , the improvement district provides local governance for lands within the park that are not within Indian reserves .
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Division No. 16 had a population of 74,543 living in 26,592 of its 31,233 total private dwellings, a change of 0.8% from its 2016 population of 73,988. With a land area of 94,072.31 km 2 (36,321.52 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.8/km 2 (2.1/sq mi) in 2021. [2]
Gipsy-Gordon Wildland Park is a wildland provincial park in northern Alberta, Canada. The park was establisher on 20 December 2000 and is 35,766.3 hectares (88,380 acres) in size. [3] [2] The Government of Alberta announced its creation through its approval of the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan Land Use Framework in November 2000. [5]