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Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park

Provincial park in Alberta, Canada

Summary

Provincial park in Alberta, Canada

Field	Value
name	Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park
photo	Dry Island Provincial Park2.jpg
photo_caption	Panoramic view
map	Canada Alberta
relief	yes
map_caption	Location of Dry Island Park in Alberta
location	Kneehill County / Alberta, Canada
nearest_city	Trochu, Red Deer
coordinates
area_km2	34.5
established	December 15, 1970
governing_body	Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation
mapframe	yes
mapframe-zoom	9
mapframe-wikidata	yes

| mapframe-zoom = 9 | mapframe-wikidata = yes Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park is a provincial park in Central Alberta, Canada, located about 103 km southeast of Red Deer and 16 km northeast of Trochu, 1 mile north and 10 miles east of Huxley. The park is situated along the Red Deer River and features badlands topography. Its name derives from the large plateau in the middle of the park, 200 m above the Red Deer River, which has never been developed by humans and retains virgin prairie grasses.

The park is situated at an elevation ranging from 720 m to 875 m and has an area of 34.5 km2. It is the site of an ancient buffalo jump, where Cree native people drove bison over the cliffs in large numbers to provide for their tribes. The hills also contain unique flora and fauna that are not found this far east of Alberta's Rocky Mountains in as large numbers as at Dry Island.

''Albertosaurus'' bonebed

The park contains the most important Albertosaurus bone bed in the world, which was first discovered by Barnum Brown in 1910 and rediscovered by Dr. Phil Currie in 1997. The bone bed excavation was halted at the end of August 2005. Dr. Currie left the Royal Tyrrell Museum in October 2005 to become the Canada Research Chair with the Biological Sciences Department at the University of Alberta. Under university auspices, excavation at the bone bed continued in the summers of 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Activities

The following activities are available in the park:

Birdwatching (with 150 bird species spotted, including turkey vulture, golden eagle, red-tailed hawk, Swainson's hawk, prairie falcon, white pelican, mountain bluebird, belted kingfisher and other warblers, great blue heron, marbled godwit, peregrine falcon and willet)
Camping (two campgrounds are maintained: Tolman East and Tolman West)
Canoeing and kayaking
Fishing (brook trout, brown trout, bull trout, burbot, westslope cutthroat trout, emerald shiner, goldeye, lake chub, lake sturgeon, lake whitefish, longnose dace, longnose sucker, mooneye, mountain sucker, mountain whitefish, northern pike, quillback, rainbow trout, sauger, shorthead redhorse, spoonhead sculpin, Trout-perch, walleye, white sucker, yellow perch)
Scenic viewing

Gallery

File:Wildflower at Dry Island Buffalo Provincial Park by Nick Longrich.jpg|Wildflowers at Dry Island Buffalo Jump File:Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park 25 Dec 2024.jpg|View to southwest in winter, from top of valley File:Rills - panoramio.jpg|Rills on cliffs, typical of badlands topography

References

Alberta Tourism, Parks, Recreation & Culture. (September 2017). "Activities in Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park".

Wikipedia Source

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