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Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park & Milky Way

Milk River Valley, Southern Alberta

 

Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park is located about 100 kilometres (60 mi) southeast of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, or 44 kilometres (30 mi) east of the community of Milk River, and straddles the Milk River itself. It is one of the largest areas of protected prairie in the Alberta park system, and serves as both a nature preserve and protection for many First Nations (indigenous) rock carvings and paintings. The park is sacred to the Blackfoot and many other aboriginal tribes.

 

The Sweet Grass Hills can be seen on the horizon which is on the Montana side of the border between Canada & the US. They are a sacred site of the Blackfoot aboriginal people who live on both sides of the 49th parallel north which forms the Canada–United States border.

 

The green in the lower left is air glow.

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Uploaded on March 22, 2022
Taken on September 29, 2021