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Open the Grassland Natural Region Map As ! Natural Regions and Native Prairie ! in Prairie and Parkland Alberta ! ! ! ! Legal ! ! ! Bon Accord ! ! Gibbons ! Bruderheim Morinville ! ! Two Hills Fort Lamont ! St. Albert Saskatchewan Mundare ! TOWN ! ! Edmonton ! CITY Stony Spruce Vegreville Plain Vermilion Grove ! Devon ! ! WATER ! Tofield Lloydminster Beaumont Calmar ! Leduc NATIV!E VEGETATION Viking Millet ! ! NATURAL REGIONS Camrose AND SUBREGIONS ! Wainwright Wetaskiwin Daysland ! PARKLAND NATURAL REGION ! ! Sedgewick Foothills Parkland Killam ! Central Parkland ! Hardisty ! Ponoka GRASSLAND NATURAL REGION Bashaw ! Dry Mixedgrass Lacombe Provost Foothills Fescue ! ! Blackfalds ! ! Stettler Northern Fescue ! ! Mixedgrass Castor ! Red Deer Coronation Penhold ! ! ! Innisfail ! Bowden Trochu ! ! Olds ! Three Hills ! Hanna ! ! Didsbury ! Carstairs ! Drumheller Crossfield ! Oyen ! Airdrie Cochrane ! ! Calgary ! Strathmore ! Chestermere ! Bassano Okotoks ! ! ! Black Diamond Turner Valley ! Brooks High River ! Vulcan ! Nanton Stavely ! Redcliff ! Medicine Vauxhall ! Hat !Claresholm Bow Island ! Picture Butte ! !Granum ! Taber ! Coaldale ! ! Coalhurst Fort Lethbridge Macleod ! ! Pincher ! Raymond Creek Magrath Base Data provided by Spatial Data Warehouse Ltd. Vegetation Data sources: Native Prairie Vegetation Inventory (1991-1993); Central Parkland Native Vegetation v. 1.2 (2002-2004); ! Grassland Vegetation Inventory (2006-2014). Milk River ! Produced by Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, Cardston South Saskatchewan Region, Regional Informatics Unit, Lethbridge, November 2014. The Minister and the Crown provides this information without warranty or representation as to any matter including but not limited to whether the data / information is correct, accurate or free from error, defect, danger, or hazard and whether it is otherwise useful or suitable for any use the user may make of it. © 2014 Government of Alberta.
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