 After the late 1950s the focus of Alberta's parks policy began to shift from recreation to wilderness preservation.Willmore Wilderness Park was created in 1959 outside of the parks system under separate legislation to preserve it as a hunting and trapping ground and protect it from industrial development.The "Parks Act" was amended in 1964 to allow for the creation of wilderness areas and natural areas as well as parks, and this was reinforced by the "Wilderness Areas Act" of 1971.