Fort Assiniboine Sandhills Wildland Provincial Park
Access to the north and central part of the park is via Highway 661; Fort Assiniboine from the west and the Vega ferry crossing from the east.The Holmes Crossing Sandhills Ecological Reserve, approximately twenty kilometres (12 mi) upstream from Fort Assiniboine Sandhills WPP and Hubert Lake Wildland Provincial Park, 25 kilometres (16 mi) downstream are part of this dune field.These wetlands contain black spruce, larch, bog cranberry, Labrador tea plus a variety of sedges and mosses.[5]: 8–9 The riparian zone has a variety of plants including old growth and mixedwood forests consisting of Jack pine, white spruce, green alder, big red stem moss, balsam poplar, Alaska birch, and aspen.[5]: 9, 12 The old growth forests contain many mosses (Brachythecium albicans, campestre, and rutabulum; Campylium polygamun, radicale; Entodon schleicheri; and Zygodon viridissmus) and lichen (Peltigera collina, evansiana, horizontalis; Physcia dimidiata; Physconia enteroxantha; and Heterodermia speciosa) that are rare in Alberta.Other rare plants in the park include: Low milkweed (Asclepias ovalifolia), Rock little clubmoss (Seloginella rupesths), MacCalla's aster (Aster x maccallae), Lakeshore sedge (Carex lacustris), Lichen (Melanelia olivacea), and Prairie wedge grass (Spenopholis obtusata).[4][5]: 14 The old growth forests provide habitat for such species as the great gray owl, Cooper's hawk, and pileated woodpecker.