Now that final submissions have been accepted for
the SSRP, Phase One of the North Saskatchewan
Regional Plan (NSRP) is now underway. This area
includes Banff National Park, therefore will be of
interest to the back-country community. Public
consultations will take place across the province,
with an open house at the Glenmore Inn in Calgary
from 4:30 PM to 7:30 PM on June 24th. Additional
information can be found at www.landuse.alberta.ca
This is an opportunity to get informed or voice
your opinion.
The Climbers Access Society of Alberta has taken
the following position on the SSRP:
The South Saskatchewan Regional Plan will guide
the land decisions, policy, and government funding
for the next ten years. The legacy of those
decisions and policy will last much longer -- 10
to 20 years. Recreational users voiced strong
reaction to the original draft and it resulted in
some changes to the current document. We are
asking to people to attend the public information
sessions and voice changes to the framework. Our
ability to get out and climb will be directly
affected by this plan!
We are advocating that Alberta Environment and
Sustainable Resources to develop and implement a
Master Recreational Plan for each of the sub-
regions, just as it has integrated resource plans
for each of the sub-regions. The goal of the
recreational master plan to plan and manage
activities on crown lands in a sustainable and
environmentally responsible way. It should be
implemented with public input at a regional level.
At present, there is at best an ad-hoc planning
process for recreational activities South
Saskatchewan area with little systematic public
input, and we've seen the result of that.
Restricted access, people using old seismic lines
for trails, environmental impacts. There are no
provisions for AESRD planning for crown lands in
the draft SSRP, we need to change that or we are
looking at more closures and restricted access in
the future.
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Registration for this event closed on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 05:42 PM.