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Natural history inventory 2000 Grizzly Ridge Wildland Park

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Cottonwood Consultants Ltd. of Calgary was contracted by Alberta Environment to undertake a natural history inventory at Grizzly Ridge Wildland Park in the Swan Hills area of north-central... More ≫

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Cottonwood Consultants Ltd. of Calgary was contracted by Alberta Environment to undertake a natural history inventory at Grizzly Ridge Wildland Park in the Swan Hills area of north-central Alberta. No previous comprehensive natural history studies have been carried out on fauna and flora in the area. The 2000-2001 study included a literature review, a multi-season field inventory, and aerial photograph/biophysical map interpretation (including GIS mapping). The objectives of the project were to: conduct an ecological land classification and define ecological units; produce a bird and mammal inventory of the park; identify and describe special features and sensitive and disturbed areas in the park; provide GIS files and hardcopy maps of the ecological land classification; and provide a report describing the ecological characteristics and special features of the area.

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Dillberry Lake Provincial Park biophysical inventory

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Dillberry Lake Provincial Park is located along the Alberta-Saskatchewan border in east central Alberta. The landscape is represented predominantly by undulating to hummocky terrain with slopes... More ≫

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Dillberry Lake Provincial Park is located along the Alberta-Saskatchewan border in east central Alberta. The landscape is represented predominantly by undulating to hummocky terrain with slopes ranging on average from 2 - 20%, and occasionally as high as 75%, overlain primarily by coarse glaciofluvial and eolian sediments of Pleistocene origin. The northern part of the Park consists of glaciofluvial ice contact landforms marked by numerous pothole lakes (or kettles) which typify knob and kettle terrain. In the southern part, these coarse deposits have been reworked by wind creating eolian sand dunes, which for the most part have stabilized over time. Currently, active blowouts are evident in some areas amongst the dunes. Small areas of coarse to fine lacustrine sediments are found exposed around the shorelines of lakes located in the Park.

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