Tango+Visits+Athabasca+Sand+Dunes

​Dear people of the world I have allways wanted to go to the Athabasca sand dunes at least since last month and with the help of the kids at Meath park school I did.I just came back from the athabasca sand dunes. Did you know you have to fly to get there but don't wory it's not long becaus there rite here in Saskatchewan. This is the man who flew the plane i took and his plane.

I took this picture on top of a sand dune. When I was on the [|sand dunes] I found out they'er so huge they stretch 100 kilometers along the south shore of [|Lake Athabasca] isn't that huge!

I also found out that they are Canada's largest active sand surfaced landscape in all of Canada and the most northern in all of Canada isn't that incredibly amazing.

. The Athabasca Sand Dunes have likely been recognized as a significant natural area for as long as they have been known. Wow all I have been known as is Tango the saxophone player and center on the basketball team.

Local aboriginal peoples of the Athabasca Denesuline ([|Dené Nations]) have a legend about the creation of the area by a giant beaver, which befits the mystical nature of the landscape. People from the community of Fond du Lac (that’s a French word I am so amazing for knowing that) have a Reserve inthe dunes, and still engage in a wide variety of traditional resource uses in the area. Isn’t that like so cool! We often think that sand dunes are deserts in the case of the Athabasca sand dunes that’s not true, because deserts are known for there lack of water and when I was at the dunes there is definitely water because Lake Athabasca is huge!

Another feature of deserts—limited plant and animal life—does not hold true for these sand dunes either. In fact, of the 300 plant species that grow in the dunes, there are 10 species that are found nowhere else in the world, and another 42 species that are considered rare in the province. Not that the dunes are entirely welcoming to the local flora. Because the dunes are active, shifted by wind and eroded by water, they are constantly on the move. That’s for shore I got caught in a sand storm I had to take a shower when I got to the lodge I am staying in.

Visitors to the region tell of seeing entire stands of skeletal trees emerging from the sand—once above ground and flourishing, these trees were slowly buried by the shifting sand, and now are revealed by further dune movements. Oh that’s totally true I saw a tree like that it looked funny because there were some leaves but half of it was buried!

The dunes were formed roughly 8,000 years ago during the last [|glacial period]. When the ice-sheet retreated from the area, melted water channels and spillways (such as the valleys of the present-day William and MacFarlane rivers) washed great volumes of sand and sediment into Glacial Lake Athabasca. Isn’t that cool so Lake Athabasca is glacier water.

In 1992 they made it an official park and not the kind of park that you walk your dog in a nature park that is protected by the government so if you go there you can’t pick any thing or change or move anything.

The passage of a new Parks Act for the province in 1986 provided a way to go after designation of the dunes, and in October 1988 the area was designated as the Athabasca Sand Dunes Park Land Reserve. After four years of public consultation, on August 24, 1992, an area encompassing 1925 square kilometres was officially designated as the [|Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Wilderness Park], only the second wilderness park in our parks system. Wow I just found that out.

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