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 · 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.