He is advising mayor Melissa Blake of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, home to the Athabasca Oil Sands - in her effort to manage their rapid growth, and plan for a better, more sustainable long-term future.
Wood Buffalo National Park, a bison reserve in Alberta and Northwest Territories, Canada
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Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo, a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada
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Blocks of intact forest include Wood Buffalo Park, the areas around Cold Lake/Primrose Lake and Doré Lake, Prince Albert National Park, to the north of Cumberland Lake, Riding Mountain National Park, Porcupine Hills, Duck Mountain Provincial Park (Manitoba), Duck Mountain Provincial Park (Saskatchewan) (near the town of Kamsack and the Peace–Athabasca Delta on the Slave River.
These captive herds are particularly important for conservation and recovery purposes, because the larger free-ranging herds in and around Wood Buffalo National Park were infected with bovine brucellosis and tuberculosis after 7,000 plains bison (Bison bison bison) were trans-shipped by barge from Buffalo National Park near Wainwright, Alberta in the 1920s.