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Spruce Grove

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Spruce Grove City Hall
Spruce Grove City Hall

Spruce Grove is a city that is 11 km (6.8 mi) west of Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada. The city is adjacent to the Town of Stony Plain and is surrounded by Parkland County. With a 2021 population of 37,645, Spruce Grove is the ninth-largest city in Alberta. The mayor of Spruce Grove is Jeff Acker. Spruce Grove is home to the Horizon Stage Performing Arts Centre, a local theatre, and the TransAlta Tri Leisure Centre, a recreation facility shared with Stony Plain and Parkland County. Jennifer Heil, the freestyle skier who won the first gold medal for Canada in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics is from Spruce Grove, as is Carla MacLeod, a member of the 2010 Canada women's national ice hockey team, and Hockey Hall of Fame member and Stanley Cup-winning goalie Grant Fuhr.

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Spruce Grove
Jespersen Avenue, City of Spruce Grove City Centre

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Spruce Grove City Hall

Jespersen Avenue 315
T7X 3E8 City of Spruce Grove, City Centre
Alberta, Canada
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Wagner Natural Area
Wagner Natural Area

Wagner Natural Area is a provincially designated protected area in the Canadian province of Alberta, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of Edmonton. It contains 130 hectares (320 acres) of land and predominantly comprises calcareous fens alongside marl ponds, wetland meadows, and forests of black spruce and tamarack. In 1987, it was designated as a Natural Area under the Wilderness Areas, Ecological Reserves, Natural Areas and Heritage Rangelands Act. Purchased by the Alberta provincial government in 1971, it is administered by the Wagner Natural Area Society (WNAS) and the Natural Resources Service of Alberta Environment. The most important feature of the area are the fens, which are now uncommon around Edmonton. The designation of the site as a natural area was primarily for the preservation of the fens. However one issue unresolved by the protective designation is that most of the groundwater reservoirs that feed the fens are outside of the Wagner Natural Area itself.Although bogs and fens are not uncommon in Alberta, Wagner Natural Area is notable as the only mineral-rich fen within 160 kilometres (99 mi) of Edmonton and one of the only sites east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Fort McMurray. As a result of its unique biophysical properties, unusually high biodiversity for an area of its size, and convenient location to major population centres, Wagner Natural Area is one of the most extensively studied natural areas in Alberta. It is also recognized as an Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network site.