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Nature, on a grand scale, is an apt description of Wood Buffalo country.
There are wood buffalo here, the largest land mammal in North America,
often seen along the park roads. Wood Buffalo National Park is also
famous for Karst, created by groundwater dissolving gypsum bedrock.
Karst landscapes include caves, sinkholes, and underground waterways.
The park is one of the largest parks on earth at 44, 807 square
kilometres.
Wood buffalo also includes salt flats, unique in Canada. This strange
spectacle is created as spring water brings dissolved salt to the
surface, covering large areas, and forming pans and mounds up to two
metres high. Wood Buffalo is also the nesting ground of the endangered
whooping crane, and the site of a recovery project for these amazing and
beautiful birds.
The Slave River, the original highway to the North, forms the eastern
boundary of the Park, and cascades down a series of sharp drops that
form some of best kayaking rapids in the world.
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