Elephant Hill Provincial Park
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Elephant Hill Provincial Park
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| location | British Columbia (Canada) | |
| surface | 9.68 km² | |
| WDPA ID | 101728 | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 46 ′ N , 121 ° 17 ′ W | |
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| Sea level | from 360 m to 849 m | |
| Setup date | April 30, 1996 | |
| administration | BC parks | |
The Elephant Hill Provincial Park is a 968 ha large provincial park in Canada's British Columbia . The park was established in 1996 and is located a few miles north of Ashcroft and southeast of Cache Creek in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District .
With its size, it is in the lower middle field of the parks in the province .
investment
The park consists of two parts. One rectangular area stretches in a north-south direction, while the second stretches from the northern end of the first to the east. At the intersection of these two parts, the park is cut through by Highway 97C . In the north-south part of the park is the eponymous Elephant Hill , at 849 m at the same time the highest point in the park. In the part of the park that runs in an east-west direction there is another almost equally high hill.
The park is a category II protected area ( national park ).
history
As with almost all provincial parks in British Columbia, it is also true that long before the area was settled by European immigrants or it became part of a park, it was a hunting and fishing area of various First Nations tribes , here the Secwepemc .
The reserve was established on April 30, 1996. Its status was then redefined under the Park Amendment Act on July 23, 1997.
In 2017, the park and the surrounding area were the focus of one of British Columbia's major forest fires . The forest fire, known as the Elephant Hill Fire , destroyed an area of around 192,000 hectares.
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 to the Bunchgrass Zone .
The climate in the area is semi-arid , meaning that it is hot and dry. The flora and fauna correspond to the climate. The area is dominated by dry grass as well as the Pacific rattlesnake and the pine snake . Coyotes are found on larger hunters .
activities
A tourist use of the park is not intended. There is no corresponding infrastructure in the park.
Web links
- Elephant Hill Provincial Park . In: BC Geographical Names (English)
- Elephant Hill Provincial Park English-language website of the park at BC Parks
Individual evidence
- ^ Elephant Hill in the Internet version of the English-language Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia
- ↑ World Database on Protected Areas - Elephant Hill Provincial Park (English)
- ↑ 76 days later, devastating Elephant Hill fire no longer a threat. CBC , September 21, 2017, accessed May 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Biogeoclimatic Zones of British Columbia. British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations , accessed 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 .