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The Rocky Mountains Forest Reserve was created by the Forest Reserves Act of 1964. [8] There are also 32 provincial grazing reserves located throughout Alberta. They are administered by Alberta Sustainable Resource Development . [ 1 ]
Chinchaga Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in northwestern Alberta, Canada.The park is a 802.7 square kilometres (310 sq mi) environmentally protected tract of land within the 5,000 km 2 (1,900 sq mi) of the greater Chinchaga wilderness area.
Sheep River Provincial Park is a provincial park located in Alberta, Canada, 23 kilometres (14 mi) west of Diamond Valley on highway 546. It is part of the Kananaskis Country park system and encompasses a portion of the Sheep River valley.
This is a list of provincial parks in the Canadian province of Alberta. They are maintained by Alberta Parks . For a list of protected areas in Alberta, see the List of protected areas of Alberta .
After the late 1950s the focus of Alberta's parks policy began to shift from recreation to wilderness preservation. Willmore Wilderness Park was created in 1959 outside of the parks system under separate legislation to preserve it as a hunting and trapping ground and protect it from industrial development.
The Milk River Natural Area is part of the Grasslands Natural Region, one of six natural regions in Alberta. [6] Within the Grasslands Region, it is part of the Dry Mixedgrass Natural Subregion, characterized by the most arid conditions in Alberta, with hot summers, cold winters with little snow cover, and high evaporation leaving a large moisture deficit in the growing season.
This ecoregion covers the grand Rocky Mountains of Alberta including the eastern outliers of the Continental Ranges. Located almost entirely in Alberta and taking in the Alberta-British Columbia border from Banff north to Jasper, Alberta and Kakwa Wildlands Park. This is an area of glaciers and high mountains covered with a forest of tall trees.
Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains, spanning 11,000 km 2 (4,200 sq mi). It was established as Jasper Forest Park in 1907, renamed as a national park in 1930, and declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1984.