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Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests

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90% trees around it and 9 species recorded.

69Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km90%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded9
  • Altitude882 m

The forest around

90% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 89%Grassland 11%Trees 90%Shrubland 0%Grassland 8%Water 1%Trees 91%Grassland 9%Water 0%Trees 89%Grassland 10%Water 0%90%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km89%
  • 1–3 km90%
  • 3–6 km91%
  • 6–10 km89%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees90%
  • Grassland8%
  • Water1%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

9 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Tall bluebells
Tall bluebellsMertensia paniculata4 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Longstalk starwort
Longstalk starwortStellaria longipes3 recordspellaea · CC BY 2.0
Foxtail barley
Foxtail barleyHordeum jubatum2 recordsAndré Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5
Prickly currant
Prickly currantRibes lacustre2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bluntleaf sandwort
Bluntleaf sandwortMoehringia lateriflora2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Bird's-foot-trefoil
Common Bird's-foot-trefoilLotus corniculatus2 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Chamisso arnica
Chamisso arnicaArnica chamissonis2 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Smallflower lousewortPedicularis parviflora3 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

69out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 90%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 9Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 882 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in August.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-6°-14°42 mm
  2. Feb-5°-13°29 mm
  3. Mar-1°-10°44 mm
  4. Apr7°-4°41 mm
  5. May14°2°72 mm
  6. Jun18°7°94 mm
  7. Jul21°10°90 mm
  8. Aug20°8°65 mm
  9. Sep14°4°54 mm
  10. Oct7°-2°50 mm
  11. Nov-2°-8°48 mm
  12. Dec-6°-13°34 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests.

Temperate coniferous forest ecoregion in Alberta and British Columbia

Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests is a forest in Canada, 882 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 90% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

9 species have been recorded around it: 8 plants, 0 fungi, 1 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Tall bluebells, Longstalk starwort and Foxtail barley.

The best time to walk is in June and in August.

Rocky View 3
As2020sa · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

    • marked trails within 5 km
    • named and notable trees within 6 km
    • picnic sites within 4 km
    • shelters and huts within 6 km
    • viewpoints within 5 km
    • visitor centres within 6 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay within 10 km
    • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

    Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

    Other forests nearby.

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    • 100%Wild
    • 9Species

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    Canada · 258 km

    • 64Forestyas Score
    • 49%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 159Species

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    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q3079257) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species68 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
    See these recordsgbif.org
    Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
    AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
    Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
    What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
    ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

    Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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