Wood Buffalo National Park

The Wood-Buffalo National Park is the largest national park of Canada. It is 44,807 hectares in size, and a big part is in the northwest corner of Alberta and the Northwest territories. With 66,580 square miles, the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona is the biggest national park in the world, and it has more land area than the whole country of Switzerland. Since it opened in 1922, the park has protected the world’s largest herd of free-ranging animals. Before that, people lived in this area, and plains bison joined the pack. Over 3,000 people live in this area. People think that whooping cranes only lay their eggs in two places worldwide.

History

People have lived in the area of Wood-Buffalo National Park since the end of the last ice age. Indigenous people have used a variety of ways to hunt, fish, and gather in this area. Indigenous people have been going through the site, now a national park in Canada, for thousands of years. Here, the Slave, Peace, and Athabasca rivers meet. Canoes have been used by traders on these rivers for thousands of years to get from one place to another.

The Beaver Tribe, the Chipewyan, the Dane-zaa, the South Slavey, and the Woods Cree were some of the first people to live in this area. These tribes would sometimes trade and exchange resources. The Northern Athabaskan language family includes these three languages. These languages are also spoken by the Dene, a group of native people who live in the West and North of the park. The Cree are a unique Algonquian people. People from the east are assumed to have brought the Algonquian language from Canada off the Atlantic coast to most of the southern Northwest territories of the United States when history was written down.

In the early 1800s, Canada bought the land claim of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Only this area was never farmed; the rest of Canada (Western ) was never farmed. People in this area still make most of their money from hunting and trapping. But after the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897, the government of Canada took steps to take away Indigenous people’s rights to their land. Concerns about indigenous people shouldn’t get in the way of using future resource wealth. On June 21, 1899, the Crown and these people signed the 8th Treaty. Because of this, the Crown got a big chunk of the land in the area.

Wood Buffalo As a National Park

This huge park in Alberta is the largest national park of Canada, and its swaths also cover the northern part of Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories. It has more land area than the whole country of Switzerland. This World Heritage Site has the biggest beaver dam in the world, herds of free-roaming wood bison, and a place where whooping cranes nest.

Information About the Park

The Peace-Athabasca Delta is in the park’s southernmost part, and this is one of the world’s biggest freshwater deltas. The delta is where the continent’s four main flyways meet every fall and spring. The only whooping cranes that still migrate lay their eggs in an isolated part of the boreal forest every summer.

In 1982, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature recognised wood buffalo’s efforts to protect the Peace Athabasca Delta and the cranes'(whooping) breeding area. The Ramsar Convention says that both of these places are Ramsar sites.

You might see gypsum karst, salt plains, and boreal forest formations in the park. The Fort Smith boreal plains in the territories of the North are the most popular part of the park and the easiest to get to. After a couple of hours of day hiking, you’ll find the salt flats, underground streams, and sinkholes you’ve been hoping to see.

Wildlife

In Wood-Buffalo National Park, there is a lot of wildlife, such as bison, moose, big grey and black bears, and red-tailed hawks, among other things. Bald eagles, marmots, snowy owls, lynx, beavers, and species that look like marmots and beavers are just some of the wildlife you might see in the area. People have seen cougars, wild horses, and muskoxen in the park and the surrounding area.

We only know that the crane(whooping ) lives in the wood-buffalo park—Summer Range of the Crane(Whooping ). The name of this place is Ramsar, and the Biological Program(International) was used to figure out what it was. In the area, there are a lot of lakes and other types of wetland, as well as streams and ponds.

Conclusion:

The Mackenzie Highway runs from Hay River to Highway 5, travelling to Fort Smith annually. Edmonton to Fort Smith or Fort Chipewyan flights are also options. Individuals may travel on snowy and slippery roads to go from Fort (McMurray) to Fort (Chipewyan) during the winter months.