Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park

Infobox_protected_area | name = Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park
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caption = Location of "Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park" in Canada
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location = flag|Saskatchewan
nearest_city = none access by float plane
lat_degrees = 59
lat_minutes = 03
lat_seconds = 30
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 108
long_minutes = 43
long_seconds = 00
long_direction = W
area = km2 to mi2|1925
established = October 1988
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governing_body = Saskatchewan Provincial Parks

Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park is a unique geophysical land feature in the Boreal Shield ecosystems of the province of Saskatchewan. [cite web
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accessdate =2007-10-27] It first came to attention that it should be a protected area in 1969, finally becoming the Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Wilderness Park on August 24, 1992. The park extends 100 kilometers along the southern edge of Lake Athabasca. The sand dunes may run between 400 to 1,500 metres long and approximately 30 metres at the greatest height.cite web
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title =The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan
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publisher =CANADIAN PLAINS RESEARCH CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF REGINA
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url =http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/athabasca_sand_dunes.html
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accessdate =2007-10-27] The Fond du Lac First Nation have a reserve which is adjacent to the park. [cite web
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title =Western Canadian Online Outdoors News
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publisher =Ya'Gotta: Saskatchewan's Athabasca Sand Dunes
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accessdate =2007-10-27] Access to this, the most northerly sand dune area globally, is by float plane only. [cite web
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title =Park Information
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publisher =Saskatchewan Environment
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url =http://www.environment.gov.sk.ca/saskparks/ParkInfo/parks/Park.asp?park=Athabasca%20Sand%20Dunes
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accessdate =2007-10-27]

Endemic Flora

The nature of this area is home to rare species of plant life no longer found anywhere else. Some of the plants which may be found in this area are field chickweed (Cerastium arvense), felt-leaved willow (Salix silicicola), Mackenzie hairgrass (Deschampsia mackenzieana), Tyrrell’s willow (Salix planifolia ssp tyrrellii), and floccose tansy (Tanacetum huronense var. floccosum).

ee also

*List of Saskatchewan parks

Footnotes

External links

*Natural Resources Canada. [http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/climate/sanddune/pdf/sanddune.pdf Sand Dunes in the Prairie Provinces]