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{{Infobox farm|name=Ya Ha Tinda Ranch|coordinates={{coord|51.753991080787124|-115.5791760235605|type:city|display=inline,title}}|established=1917}}
'''Ya Ha Tinda Ranch''' is a [[ranch]] in Ya Ha Tinda Valley, [[Clearwater County, Alberta|Clearwater County]], [[Alberta]], Canada near the Alberta side of [[Banff National Park]]. The ranch is around 40 km<sup>2</sup> (9748 acres, 3,945 hectares) with approximately one third being grassland and two thirds being forested. Around a thousand elk spend the winter in the ranch.
The ranch is owned by [[Parks Canada]] and used to raise horses for use in the western [[National Parks of Canada|national parks]] that request mounted park rangers. Horses are raised for five years before being assigned to a national park.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title=Ya Ha Tinda Ranch remains Parks Canada's only working horse ranch as it turns 100|work=CBC News|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ya-ha-tinda-ranch-turns-100-1.4467775}}</ref> The ranch has around a hundred horses at peak time.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Wolf pack takes down Ya Ha Tinda Ranch yearling|work=CBC News|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/wolf-pack-takes-down-horse-ya-ha-tinda-ranch-1.5078165}}</ref> Since its creation in 1917, the bounds of the park have frequently changed. Originally, the ranch was within [[Banff National Park|Rocky Mountains National Park]] boundaries.<ref name=":0" />
== History ==
Prehistoric bison remains indicates the area around the ranch has been used by native people for over 9,400 years.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Ya Ha Tinda Ranch|url=https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/ab/banff/activ/cheval-horse/YaHaTinda}}</ref> Ya Ha Tinda means "mountain prairie" in the [[Nakoda people|Nakoda]] language.<ref name=":1" />
In the early 1900s Brewster's Travel obtained a grazing lease on the site of the future ranch<ref name=":1" /> and, by 1908, were raising horses there.<ref name=":1" /> In 1917, Parks Canada began exclusively using the site to train horses.<ref name=":1" />
== References ==
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[[Category:Ranches in Alberta]]
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