Dune Za Keyih Provincial Park and Protected Area
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Dune Za Keyih Provincial Park
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| location | British Columbia (Canada) | |
| surface | 3,307.74 km² | |
| WDPA ID | 555516134 | |
| Geographical location | 58 ° 16 ' N , 126 ° 10' W | |
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| Setup date | April 11, 2001 | |
| administration | BC parks | |
| particularities | Backcountry park | |
As Dune Za Keyih Provincial Park and Protected Area (formerly Frog Gataga Provincial Park and Protected Area ) is a provincial park in the Canadian province of British Columbia , respectively. With an area of 330,774 hectares , it is one of the largest of the Provincial Parks in British Columbia . It is located in the north of the province, about 150 kilometers west of Fort Nelson and belongs to the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area . It is located in the transition area between the Northern Rocky Mountains in the east and the Rocky Mountain Trench in the west.
The park is a so-called backcountry park , which means that there are no real roads leading into the park. Access is mainly via footpaths and bridle paths or by helicopter and seaplane.
The park is a category Ib protected area ( wilderness area ); the smaller part of the protected area is a category II protected area .
The park is located in the catchment area of the Kechika River , a river that has so far been spared logging. With a length of 250 km, it is the largest river in the province where no trees have been felled industrially. It flows into the Liard River . To the northwest lies the Denetiah Provincial Park across the Kechika River, to the southeast the Kwadacha Wilderness Provincial Park .
The park is located in the traditional territory of the Kaska Dena . The area of the Frog River , which comes from the Cassiar Mountains from the west, and the Gataga River ("White River" in the Sekani language ), which comes from the Rocky Mountains in the east, was placed under protection in 1996, as was the Kechika, into which the two rivers flow. The park was founded in 2000 and covers an area of 3477.89 km². The English name was translated into Kaska Dene, the local Indian language. The Gataga flows through the park for 90 km, the Frog River for 40 km and the Kechika for 35 km. In addition, a chain of lakes, the South Gataga Lakes Chain , is 12 km long , and the South Gataga River is 35 km.
The area represents landscape types such as alpine tundra , as well as boreal and sub-boreal forests with white and black spruce . The ecosystem is considered to be undisturbed, and the predator-prey ratio fluctuates naturally. Main representatives are moose, wolves, grizzly and black berries, Dall sheep , mountain goats, elk , caribou, mule deer , as well as one of the southernmost occurrence of wolverine .
The confluence of the Gataga and Kechika rivers is known as the Altse Dene Tunna or Davie Trail, the latter name deriving from "Old Davie", a respected prophet. When Europeans and Americans roamed the area in the wake of the Klondike gold rush , he took on translation and mediation tasks. On the Davie Trail, which became the main route to the Klondike, attempts were even made in 1900 to drive a herd of 500 to 600 cattle from Vanderhoof there. The kechika was used for the Lower Post fur trade .
Web links
- Dune Za Keyih Provincial Park and Protected Area . In: BC Geographical Names (English)
- Dune Za Keyih Provincial Park and Protected Area . In: English language website of the park at BC Parks
Remarks
- ↑ Dune Za Keyih Park (aka Frog-Gataga Park) , World Database on Protected Areas.
- ↑ Muskwa-Kechika Protected Areas ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Muskwa-Kechika Management Area
- ↑ The information on the size of the park varies. For the overview box, the information from the BC Geographical Names Information System was used for the parking area . For the above part of the text, however, reference was made to the size specification from BC Parks .
