Nearest city Fort MacKay Province Alberta | Address Wood Buffalo, AB, Canada Phone +1 780-743-7437 | |
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Location Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada Governing body Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation Hours Open today ยท Open 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hours Management Alberta Culture and Tourism | ||
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.
The Wildland contains 357,066.96 acres. It is accessible only by fly-in during the summer, and by snowmobile during the winter. 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.