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Additional park land for Oliver – part of bigger BC picture

Inkaneep Park Addition (0.9 hectare): This addition to Inkaneep Park is being added to the park as a mitigation measure for the deletion of 0.24 of a hectare to provide for secondary road access to a planned correctional facility. The total area of the park will be 16 hectares.

B.C.’s total provincial protected areas system is 13,986,106 hectares – the third-largest in North America (after the Canadian and the U.S. national park systems) and the largest provincial/territorial parks system in Canada.

Class A parks provide the highest level of protection of recreation and conservation values of all parks.

Nearly 276, 000 hectares was added to the BC Parks system through legislation introduced today in the Legislature.The B.C. government has been establishing parks and protected areas for more than a century. Most of the land put into the park system today is in the Chilcotin .