Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park of Canada at 44,741 km2 (17,275 sq mi). It is in northeastern Alberta and the southern Northwest...
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The wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) or mountain bison (often called the wood buffalo or mountain buffalo), is a distinct northern subspecies or ecotype...
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Buffalo, a specialized municipality in northern Alberta, Canada Wood Buffalo National Park, a bison reserve in Alberta and Northwest Territories, Canada...
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Buffalo National Park was created near the town of Wainwright in east central Alberta on June 5, 1909. It was closed in 1940 and delisted in 1947 when...
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includes Wood Buffalo Nation Park of Canada) and is home to oil sand deposits known as the Athabasca oil sands. The Municipality of Wood Buffalo was incorporated...
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result, many were moved to Wood Buffalo National Park in north-eastern Alberta (est. 1922). There, the plains bison and wood bison mingled and created...
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within the new parks. In 1922, Wood Buffalo National Park was the first to allow traditional indigenous activities to continue. In 1972, Parks Canada defined...
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Yellowstone bison herd (redirect from Yellowstone Park Buffalo Herd)
usage the name "buffalo" is listed in many dictionaries as an acceptable name for American Buffalo or bison. Yellowstone National Park has large areas...
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Bison (redirect from Buffalo (bison))
Plains bison, B. b. bison, and the wood bison, B. b. athabascae, which is the namesake of Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada. A third subspecies, the...
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(14,585 sq mi), making it the second largest park in Canada, after Wood Buffalo National Park. The park is remarkable for its extensive glaciers and ice...
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needs of national parks. In the late 19th century, only 300 wood bison remained worldwide, almost exclusively in Wood Buffalo National Park. During the...
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American bison (redirect from American buffalo)
Territories; Elk Island National Park and Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta; Grasslands National Park and Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan. Another...
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to Mexico. By the mid-20th century, the muskeg of the taiga in Wood Buffalo National Park, Alberta and Northwest Territories, Canada, and the surrounding...
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Peace-Athabasca Delta, a globally significant wetland in Wood Buffalo National Park, and Nahanni National Park Reserve. Its eastern boundary is located by Great...
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Bison hunting (redirect from Buffalo hunting)
two continuously wild herds of bison exist in North America at Wood Buffalo National Park, bison are hunted to protect disease-free public (reintroduced)...
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Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo is a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district is one of 87 districts mandated to return a single member...
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petroleum-mine proposal—Frontier Mine—25 km (16 mi) south of Wood Buffalo National Park and north of Fort McMurray in northeast Alberta. In 2020, a number...
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of which 58,981 km2 is conserved (7.6 percent). Wood Buffalo National Park, the largest national park in Canada, and Whooping Crane Summer Range, the...
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Mountain Parks, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Wood Buffalo National Park and Writing-on-Stone...
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access to hunting, fishing, and gathering within the boundaries of Wood Buffalo National Park unless they switched their registration, and were threatened with...
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Lake Claire (Alberta) (category Wood Buffalo National Park)
which is entirely in Alberta, Canada. It is located entirely in Wood Buffalo National Park, west of Lake Athabasca. It lies between the mouths of Peace River...
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James Bernard Harkin (category Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada))
controversial.[citation needed] Moreover, the creation of the Wood Buffalo National Park sparked huge debate with local indigenous groups and the rippling...
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Dark-sky preserve (redirect from Dark Sky Park)
"Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park | DarkSky International". darksky.org. 2017-04-28. "Wood Buffalo National Park". Parks Canada. August 3, 2013. Retrieved...
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Plains bison (redirect from Plains buffalo)
genes are the Yellowstone Park, the Henry Mountains, the Custer State Park, the Wind Cave, and the Wood Buffalo National Park bison herds and subsidiary...
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black spruce. South of Great Slave Lake, in a remote corner of Wood Buffalo National Park, is the Whooping Crane Summer Range, a nesting site of a remnant...
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Peace–Athabasca Delta (category Wood Buffalo National Park)
southeast corner of Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada's largest national park, and also spreads into the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, west and south...
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Company Limited (NTCL) established shipyards below Fort Smith. Wood Buffalo National Park was established in 1922; its operations and administration headquarters...
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International Peace Park". UNESCO. Retrieved 28 May 2010. "Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino". UNESCO. Retrieved 26 June 2011. "Wood Buffalo National Park". UNESCO...
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trappers association in Fort Chipewyan before working as a park warden in Wood Buffalo National Park from 1955 to 1963. He served as president of the Métis...
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the lower Peace River and are bounded to the north and east by Wood Buffalo National Park. The area was unglaciated during the last glacial period. The...
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