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Castle Provincial Park in southern Alberta was established in 2017 as part of a larger protected mountain landscape with adjacent Castle Wildland Provincial Park, safeguarding 25,501 hectares. Its protection followed earlier reserve and park designations in the twentieth century, while the region itself has been used by the Kutenai and Piikani First Nations for more than 10,000 years for ceremony, hunting, and gathering. Explored and surveyed in the nineteenth century as mountain routes were mapped, the area is now valued as part of the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem, providing important wildlife habitat and migration corridors, while also supporting extensive camping and outdoor recreation.
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