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photo by Cheryl HvalGrosbeak Lake is part of Wood Buffalo National Park’s extensive band of salt plains which cover an area of 370 square kilometres. Unique in Canada, they are formed by water that percolates through underground salt deposits left by an ancient sea around 390 million years ago. At the location of the Salt Plains, impermeable bedrock has forced the saline water to the surface. As the water evaporates, salt deposits are left behind.

courtesy Wood Buffalo National ParkLarge. It’s a word often used to describe these animals and the national park in which they’re found.

courtesy WBNPThe majestic birds of the Slave River white pelican colony nest, feed, and live on turbulent, whitewater rapids near Fort Smith. It is unique habitat for this species. All other white pelican colonies nest and feed on calm-water lakes and ponds.

Each year around April 20, the white pelicans return from their southern wintering grounds to Fort Smith with soaring grace and beauty. They raise a new generation of pelicans in a manner like no other white pelican colony in the world.

Fort Smith is one of the most practical and cost-effective access points to the largest wilderness left in North America: the storied Arctic Barren Lands (mainland tundra) of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

Canoeists from all over North America and Europe come to Fort Smith to paddle the Barren Lands on some of the most remote and wild rivers on the planet.

Located 120 km from Fort Smith on Pine Lake Road. Mikisew Cree First Nation Reserve. Featuring: Viewpoint of Peace River, canoe access to Peace River.

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