Highway 980 is a

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in the east central region of the

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. It runs from

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near Armit until it transitions into Range Road 1304 at its southern terminus but not before passing through the Woody River Recreation Site and the community of Elbow Lake. It also connects with Highway 981. It is about long. Highway 980 traverses the

Porcupine Provincial Forest The Porcupine Provincial Forest is a protected boreal forest in Canada which covers the Porcupine Hills on the border of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. __TOC__ History By the end of the 19th century, Eastern Canada had essentially run out of marke ...

in the

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and it is the main access to several lakes including

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, Isbister,

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, Smallfish, and Woody. The highway follows

Woody River Woody River is a river in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The river's source is in the Porcupine Hills and Porcupine Provincial Forest of eastern Saskatchewan. From there it flows south through boreal forest and then east ...

Midnight Creek Midnight Creek is a river in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The river begins in the heart of the Porcupine Hills and of the Manitoba Escarpment and heads in a generally south-east direction through the Porcupine Provincial Forest befor ...

, and Little Armit River for much of its route through the Porcupine Hills.

References

980 Year 980 ( CMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Peace is concluded between Emperor Otto II (the Red) and King Lothair III (or Lothair IV) a ...

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