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The Upper Athabasca Region is one of the seven land-use regions defined in Alberta’s Land-use Framework. It spans the central north-west portion of the province and includes the upper portion of the Athabasca River watershed. This watershed includes Alberta’s third largest lake, Lesser Slave Lake. T...

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Main Authors: Forest Management Branch, Forcorp Solutions Inc
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
NOTICES AND DATA SOURCES
Athabasca River
Lesser Slave lake
Slave Lake
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.395.9614
http://srd.alberta.ca/LandsForests/ForestManagement/ForestManagementPlanning/documents/RegForLandAssess-UpperAtha-Jun12-2013.pdf
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Summary:The Upper Athabasca Region is one of the seven land-use regions defined in Alberta’s Land-use Framework. It spans the central north-west portion of the province and includes the upper portion of the Athabasca River watershed. This watershed includes Alberta’s third largest lake, Lesser Slave Lake. The Region contains significant development of the forest and energy sectors. Eleven of the 20 Forest Management Agreement Areas in the province are either entirely or partially located in the Region. Conventional well sites and pipelines are abundant. In addition, the Region contains five developed coal mines. Agriculture is present in the southeast portion of the Region where the landscape has been under cultivation for many decades. Jasper National Park makes up 14 % of the area of the Region and provides large expanses of undisturbed forest. The Park provides recreation and tourism opportunities in addition to the variety of provincial parks, wildland and recreation areas. In total, parks and protected areas cover 16 % of the Region. The topography of the Region is diverse, from the Rocky Mountains in the west to the undulating plains in the northeast. The Region’s climate and soil have resulted in the development of primarily coniferous forests in the western portion, grading into mixedwood stands in the lower elevations of the northeast.

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