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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] but most of this has not been formally protected. The total protected area throughout Alberta including federal and provincial protected areas is ...
Environment and Parks. The Ministry of Environment and Protected Areas of Alberta (also commonly called Alberta Environment and Protected Areas) is the Alberta provincial ministry of the Executive Council of Alberta responsible for environmental issues and policy as well as some, but not all, parks and protected areas in Alberta.
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 .
Alberta's system of provincial parks began with the striking of a committee on parks by then Premier J. E. Brownlee in 1929. This led to the passage of the Provincial Parks and Protected Areas Act in 1930 and the formation of the Provincial Board of Management to oversee the system. The first provincial parks were Aspen Beach Provincial Park ...
The park is home to Alberta's tallest waterfall, the Kakwa Falls, which is 30 metres tall. [3] It adjoins Willmore Wilderness Park and British Columbia's Kakwa Provincial Park and Protected Area and together with them comprises the first interprovincial park shared between BC and Alberta. [4] [5] It takes the name from Kakwa, the Cree word for ...
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. [3] [4] It is a disjunct outlier of the Foothills Natural Region of Alberta. [5]
Hay-Zama Lakes is a 586-square-kilometre (226 sq mi) inland wetland and wildland park [2] in northwestern Alberta, Canada. It was designated a Ramsar wetland of international importance on May 24, 1982, [3] and is recognized as an Important Bird Area. [4] It "constitutes one of the most extensive sedge wetlands in western North America".
Alberta Forestry, Parks and Tourism. Grizzly Ridge Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in northern Alberta, Canada. The park was established on 14 April 1999 and has an area of 10,706.07 hectares (26,455.28 acres; 41.34 sq mi). [4] The park is included in the Upper Athabasca Region Land Use Framework.