Birch Mountains Wildland

Birch Mountains Wildland
IUCN category Ib (wilderness area)
Location of Birch Mountains Wildland in Alberta
Location	Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada
Nearest city	Fort MacKay
Coordinates	57°30′31″N 112°57′29″W / 57.50861°N 112.95806°W / 57.50861; -112.95806Coordinates: 57°30′31″N 112°57′29″W / 57.50861°N 112.95806°W / 57.50861; -112.95806
Governing body	Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation

Birch Mountains Wildland is located within the Birch Mountains in Alberta. It contains one of Canada's only free-roaming wood bison herds outside of Wood Buffalo National Park.

The area has a very diverse ecosystem that supports lake trout, lake whitefish, cisco, Arctic grayling, walleye and yellow perch; osprey and bald eagles and many more. The rare, spore-bearing plant quillwort was discovered in the area in 2004.^[1][2]

The Wildland contains 357,066.96 acres. It is accessible only by fly-in during the summer, and by snowmobile during the winter.^[3] There are no developed camping facilities in the park, except for two commercial backcountry lodges: Namur Lake Lodge and Island Lake Lodge. Hiking, fishing, camping, hunting, ice fishing, and on-site OHV riding are welcome.

See also

• List of Alberta provincial parks
• List of Canadian provincial parks
• List of National Parks of Canada

References

• Parks and Protected Areas
• http://gateway.cd.gov.ab.ca/siteinformation.aspx?id=374 Birch Mountains Wildland Park

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