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Alberta Forestry, Parks and Tourism Fort Assiniboine Sandhills Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in Woodlands County , Alberta , Canada . The park is 7,903 hectares (19,530 acres) in area and was established in 1997. [ 3 ]
Frank Lake is a restored wetland located 6 km (3.7 mi) east of High River, Alberta, 50 km (31 mi) south of Calgary, near Blackie. The lake is controlled by Ducks Unlimited Canada for wildlife management purposes, and is an Important Bird Area and Key Biodiversity Area. It is one of four Alberta lakes with the same name. [1]
[2] [5] The park is a successful collaboration between the Mikisew Cree First Nation, the governments of Alberta and Canada, and petroleum industry partners in the area. Teck Resources, Imperial Oil, and Cenovus Energy returned oil leases to the Athabasca oil sands which underlay the area. [6] This enabled the land to be turned into a park. [7]
Whitehorse Wildland Provincial Park is a wildland provincial park in west-central Alberta, Canada.The park was established on 26 August 1998 and had an area of 17,439.886 hectares (43,094.90 acres; 67.34 sq mi). [4]
Ghost River Valley, Alberta (1970) The Ghost River Wilderness Area is a provincially designated wilderness area in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta protecting the headwaters of the Ghost River. [2] It was established in 1967 and it, as one of the three wilderness areas of Alberta, has the strictest form of government protection available in Canada.
Swan Hills is a town in northern Alberta, Canada. It is in the eponymous Swan Hills , approximately 80 km (50 mi) north of Whitecourt and 62 km (39 mi) northwest of Fort Assiniboine . The town is at the junction of Highway 32 and Grizzly Trail , and is surrounded by Big Lakes County .
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.
Wabamun Lake (sometimes spelled Wabumun) is one of the most heavily used lakes in Alberta, Canada.It lies 65 kilometres (40 mi) west of Edmonton.It is 19.2 kilometres (11.9 mi) long and 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) wide, covers 82 square kilometres (32 sq mi) and is 11 metres (36 ft) at its deepest, with somewhat clear water.