Bull Canyon Provincial Park

	Bull Canyon Provincial Park IUCN Category III - Natural Monument or Feature
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location	British Columbia (Canada)
surface	3.43 km²
WDPA ID	65124
Geographical location	52 ° 6 ' N , 123 ° 23' W Coordinates: 52 ° 5 '30 " N , 123 ° 22' 45" W.
Setup date	April 7, 1993
administration	BC parks

The Bull Canyon Provincial Park is one of only 343 hectares (ha) of large Provincial Park in the center of the Canadian province of British Columbia . The park is located on Highway 20 , about 120 kilometers west of Williams Lake and is part of the Cariboo Regional District . The closest settlement is 7 kilometers east of Alexis Creek with about 70 residents.

investment

The park is located on the Chilcotin Plateau . It is bounded to the south and west by the Chilcotin River and most of the park is north of Highway 20.
The park is an IUCN Category III ( natural monument ) protected area .

history

The park was established on April 7, 1993. Over time, the park boundaries were redefined. With the new park boundaries, the park was increased from 369 ha to its current area of 343 ha. Before the park was established, there was already another protected area here from 1955. However, the area was temporarily used by the Canadian Forest Service for a camp for fighting forest fires.

As with almost all provincial parks in British Columbia, this one too - long before the area was settled by immigrants or became part of a park - was a hunting and fishing area of various First Nations tribes , here the Tsilhqot'in . There are also so-called “pit houses”, a kind of pit house , in the park.

Flora and fauna

British Columbia's ecosystem is divided into different biogeoclimatic zones using the Biogeoclimatic Ecological Classification (BEC) Zoning System . These biogeoclimatic zones are characterized by a fundamentally identical or very similar climate and the same or very similar biological and geological conditions. This results in a very similar population of plants and animals in the respective zones. Within the British Columbia ecosystem, the park area is assigned partly to the Dry Cool Subzone (IDFdk4) and partly to the Very Dry Mild Subzone (IDFxm) of the Interior Douglas-fir Zone .

activities

The park has a campsite with 20, non-reservable spaces for tents and campers. It also has simple sanitary facilities and a picnic area.

Web links

Bull Canyon Provincial Park . In: BC Geographical Names (English)
Bull Canyon Provincial Park . In: English language website of the park at BC Parks
Information park on britishcolumbia.com (Engl.)

Individual evidence

↑ World Database on Protected Areas - Bull Canyon Park (English)
↑ Biogeoclimatic Zones of British Columbia. British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations , accessed January 10, 2017 .
^ Bull Canyon Provincial Park - Purpose Statement and Zoning Plan. (PDF; 117.21 KB) British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks , February 2003, accessed on January 10, 2017 .
^ Ecosystems of British Columbia. (PDF; 10.31 MB) British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, February 1991, accessed on January 10, 2017 .

[1] World Database on Protected Areas - Bull Canyon Park (English)

[2] Biogeoclimatic Zones of British Columbia. British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations , accessed January 10, 2017 .

[3] Bull Canyon Provincial Park - Purpose Statement and Zoning Plan. (PDF; 117.21 KB) British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks , February 2003, accessed on January 10, 2017 .

[4] Ecosystems of British Columbia. (PDF; 10.31 MB) British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, February 1991, accessed on January 10, 2017 .