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{{Short description|Protected area in northern Alberta, Canada}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}}
{{Infobox protected area
| name =  Fidler-Greywillow Wildland Park
| alt_name = Fidler-Greywillow Wildland Provincial Park
| iucn_category = Ib
| map = Canada Alberta#Canada#CAN AB Wood Buffalo
| map_alt = Location the park in northeastern Alberta, Canada
| map_caption = Location of Fidler-Greywillow WPP
| relief = yes
| location = [[Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo]], [[Alberta]], Canada
| nearest_city = [[Fort Chipewyan]]
| coords = {{coord|58|56|11|N|110|37|8|W|region:CA-AB}}
| area = {{convert|6,520.625|ha|acre}}
| created =March 1998
| established = March 1998
| operator = [[Alberta Parks]]
| url = {{URL|https://www.albertaparks.ca/parks/north/fidler-greywillow-wpp/|Fidler-Greywillow Wildland Provincial Park}}
| embedded = {{Infobox mapframe |wikidata=yes |zoom =7 |coord={{coord|58|56|11|N|110|37|8|W}}}}
}}
'''Fidler-Greywillow Wildland Park''' is a [[wildland]] [[provincial park]] located in [[Northern Alberta|northeastern]] [[Alberta]], [[Canada]] within the [[Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo]].<ref name="Map">{{cite web|title=FIDLER_GREYWILLOW Wildland Provincial Park|url=http://www.albertaparks.ca/media/2885/257.PDF|website=Alberta Parks|publisher=Govnment of Canada|accessdate=22 June 2016}}</ref> Summer activities include activities back-country camping, hunting, kayaking, and fishing, and winters offer snowmobiling.<ref name="Alberta Parks">{{cite web|title=Fidler-Greywillow Wildland Provincial Park|url=http://www.albertaparks.ca/fidler-greywillow/|website=Alberta Parks|publisher=Government of Canada|accessdate=22 June 2016}}</ref> Random backcountry camping is allowed on Bustard Island.
==Geography==
The Fidler-Greywillow Wildland Park lies within the natural regions of the [[Canadian Shield]] (Kazan Upland), and the [[Boreal Forest]] (Athabasca Plain.)<ref name="Alberta Parks"/>
The park starts at an unnamed creek along the northwest shore of [[Lake Athabasca]] near Fidler Point. It also encompasses several islands in the lake; these include [[Bustard Island]],<ref name="Bustard Island">{{cite web|title=Bustard Island|url=http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/IASDY|website=Natural Resources Canada|publisher=Govnment of Canada|accessdate=22 June 2016}}</ref> [[Burntwood Island]],<ref name="Burntwood Island">{{cite web|title=Burntwood Island|url=http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/0c869e8e849c20c30a0e80c3e6805e5c|website=Natural Resources Canada|publisher=Govnment of Canada|accessdate=22 June 2016}}</ref> and the [[Lucas Islands]]<ref name="Lucas Islands">{{cite web|title=Lucas Islands|url=http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/IAFJP|website=Natural Resources Canada|publisher=Govnment of Canada|accessdate=22 June 2016}}</ref> To the southeast of Burntwood Island is Egg Island a small island part of the
[[Egg Island Ecological Reserve]].
==Flora==
Forbs specimens included; ''[[Drosera anglica]]'' (Oblong-leaved sundew), ''[[Menyanthes trifoliata]]'' (Buck-bean), ''[[Triglochin maritima]]'' (Side arrow grass).<ref name="Flora">{{cite web|last1=Allen|first1=Lorna|last2=Johnson|first2=J. Derek|last3=Vujnovic|first3=Ksenija|title=Small Patch Communities of Fidler-Greywillow Wildland Provincial Park|url=http://open.alberta.ca/dataset/b390b179-b76c-4a2c-83ea-35cfd430fb2e/resource/77dc9f8c-b716-4336-9471-5ac98137569c/download/2003-ct-fgw-wpp.pdf|publisher=Alberta Natural Heritage Information Centre|accessdate=22 June 2016|date=2003}}</ref> Graminoids specimens included; ''[[Carex chordorrhiza]]'' (Prostrate sedge), ''[[Carex lasiocarpa]]'' (Woollyfruit sedge), ''[[Carex limosa]]'' (mud sedge), ''[[Carex rostrata]]'' (Beaked sedge), ''Juncus stygius'' (Marsh rush), ''[[Scheuchzeria palustris]]'' (Scheuchzeria).<ref name="Flora"/> Bryophytes specimens included; ''[[Sphagnum angustifolium]]'' (fine peat/bogmoss), ''[[Warnstorfia exannulata]]'' (brown peat moss).<ref name="Flora"/>
Common trees found on the mainland and islands includes black spruce ''([[Picea mariana]])'',  jack pine ''([[Pinus banksiana]])'', white spruce ''([[Picea glauca]])'', and paper birch ''([[Betula papyrifera]])''<ref>{{cite web|last1=Allen|first1=Lorna|last2=Johnson|first2=J. Derek|last3=Vujnovic|first3=Ksenija|title=Small Patch Communities of Fidler-Greywillow Wildland Provincial Park|url=https://www.albertaparks.ca/media/3194190/ct_fgw_wpp.pdf|website=Alberta Parks|accessdate=23 June 2016|page=1|date=2003}}</ref> In a 2005 study of flora in the park, the first record of ''[[Carex echinata]]'' (star sedge) was found on Burntwood Island.
==Transportation==
Travel to the park is by float-plane from [[Fort McMurray]], or by boat from Fort Chipewyan. There are no summer access roads that run into the park.<ref name="Alberta Parks"/>
==See also==
*[[List of provincial parks in Alberta]]
*[[List of Canadian provincial parks]]
*[[List of National Parks of Canada]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*[https://albertaparks.ca/parks/northeast/fidler-greywillow-wpp/ Fidler-Greywillow Wildland Park]
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{{Alberta parks}}
{{Alberta Regions Lower Athabasca}}
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[[Category:Provincial parks of Alberta]]
[[Category:Protected areas established in 1998]]
[[Category:1998 establishments in Alberta|Fidler-Greywillow Wildland]]
[[Category:Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo]]
[[Category:Lake Athabasca]]