Boreal Plains Ecozone
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- Work cat.: The Boreal Plain Ecozone, 1995:p. 11 (Boreal Plain Ecozone extends as a wide band from the Peace River country of British Columbia in the northwest to the southeastern corner of Manitoba)
- Dunster, J. Dict. of natural resource management, c1996(under Ecological Land Classification: Fifteen ecozones are recognized in Canada: Tundra Cordillera, Boreal Cordillera, Pacific Maritime, Montane Cordillera, Boreal Plains, Taiga Plains, Prairie, Taiga Shield, Boreal Shield, Hudson's Plains, Mixed Wood Plains, Atlantic Maritime, Southern Arctic, Northern Arctic, and Arctic Cordillera)
- Forest ecosystems of Canada website, July 28, 2004:classification/ecozones (Boreal Plains. The Boreal Plains ecozone extends as a wide band from Peace River, in British Columbia, to southeastern Manitoba.)
- The Canadian biodiversity Web site, July 28, 2004:Canada's ecozones/Boreal Plains (The Boreal Plains are found in the centre of Alberta, extending east through the centre of Saskatchewan and slightly south of centre Manitoba.)
- Evergreen native plant database, via WWW, July 28, 2004:Canada's ecozones/Boreal Plains (The Boreal Plains ecozone is part of the flat Interior Plains of Canada - a northern extension of the Great Plains of North America. The subdued relief consists of low-lying valleys and plains stretching across the mid portions of Manitoba and Saskatchewan and continuing through almost two-thirds of Alberta. It covers 650 000 square kilometres (an area larger than the Yukon). The majority of the surface waters are part of three watersheds: those of the Saskatchewan River, the Beaver River, and Peace, Athabasca, and Slave rivers' watershed.)
The Boreal Plains Ecozone, as defined by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), is a terrestrial ecozone in the western Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. It also has minor extensions into northeastern British Columbia and south-central Northwest Territories. The region extends over 779,471 km2, 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 only nesting and breeding area for the critically endangered whooping crane, are both located in the northern portion of this ecozone. Industry in this ecozone once consisted primarily of forestry and agriculture, but in 1967 Great Canadian Oil Sands Limited began extracting bitumen from the Athabasca oil sands. Operations there have expanded significantly since 2003, and the oil sands are becoming an increasingly significant economic factor in the region.
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