Largest Park Is Canada`s

June 11, 1989|By Boston Globe.

What is the largest park in the world? Is it Yellowstone? Hardly. It`s Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada.

The vast, unfenced forest region with open plains and many lakes is the home of buffalo, bear, beaver, caribou, deer, moose and waterfowl. Two-thirds of the park is in Alberta, and the rest is in the Northwest Territories.

And how big is Wood Buffalo National Park? 17,300 square miles-about one- third the size of Illinois. Yellowstone National Park, by contrast, is a measly 3,472 square miles.