Boreal Plains Ecozone in the context of "Wood Buffalo National Park"

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⭐ Core Definition: Boreal Plains Ecozone

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 km, of which 58,981 km 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.

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Boreal Plains Ecozone in the context of Great Plains

The Great Plains is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. The region stretches east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland. They are the western part of the Interior Plains, which include the mixed grass prairie, the Tallgrass prairie between the Great Lakes and Appalachian Plateau, and the Taiga Plains and Boreal Plains ecozones in Northern Canada. "Great Plains", or Western Plains, is also the ecoregion of the Great Plains or the western portion of the Great Plains, some of which in the farthest west is known as the High Plains.

The Great Plains lie across both the Central United States and Western Canada, encompassing:

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← Great Plains
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Commission for Environmental Cooperation → Ecozones of Canada → Canada → Manitoba → Saskatchewan → Alberta → British Columbia → Northwest Territories → Wood Buffalo National Park → Whooping Crane Summer Range → Whooping crane →