page_title: Cypress Hills (Canada)
section_title: Ecology
hierarchical_section_title: Cypress Hills (Canada) / Ecology
caption_attribution_description: Cypress Hills, Alberta/Saskatchewan, Canada
context_page_description: The Cypress Hills are a geographical region of hills in southwestern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta, Canada.
  The highest point in the Cypress Hills is at Head of the Mountain in Alberta at 1,466 metres. The highest point in Saskatchewan is 1,392 m, in a farmer's field in the Cypress Hills, at 49°33′N 109°59′W.
context_section_description: The hills, because of the higher precipitation they receive, support extensive forest and also some rare fescue grassland. Most of the flora is shared with the mountains in states such as Montana and Wyoming rather than with the rest of Canada. The altitude of the hills, which is similar to the altitude of Banff also shares some similar flora and fauna with the Alberta mountain parks. Southern facing slopes tend to support prairie, northern slopes are covered with forest.
  The hills currently host cougars. Cattle graze throughout the Cypress Hills Provincial Park, especially on the prairie on the flat tops of the Hills, though stream bank damage in the spruce/lodgepole pine/aspen forest indicates their presence everywhere in the Hills.
caption: The Cypress Hills
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