The transition from mountain to prairie may only last 50 to 100km. Originating in the snow and Glaciers among high peaks at heights of up to 12,000 ft the infant streams plunge down through the foothills, to eventually amalgamate into the huge rivers which relentlessly cross the prairies and forest on their long journeys to the Arctic Ocean and Hudson’s bay. The divide also serves as the border between Alberta and British Columbia and since Alberta only includes the eastern side of the mountains most of its trout streams flow in an easterly direction and are widely known as the eastern slopes streams. In places, the divide is so narrow and clearly defined that it is possible to stand with one foot on the Pacific watershed and the other in that of the Atlantic. The divide is aptly named because it is both the apex and continent mountains where rainwater can drain either west to the Pacific or east to the Atlantic/arctic oceans. The Rockies stretch for thousands of miles as a long spine down the west of the whole continent and running more or less down through the middle of this range is the continental divide. A consequence of this topography is that nearly all the fish of traditional interest to fly fishermen are confined to a narrow strip in its south-west which makes up the Albertan section of the Rocky Mountains A large proportion of its vastness is covered with the remote inaccessible northern boreal forests while farther south prairies and parklands make up most of the rest. Highway to Paradise – Alberta’s Forestry Trunk RoadĪs big as Montana and Wyoming are combined the Canadian province of Alberta can only be classified as huge.
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