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Here is a recent tweet from Jason Nixon in the house,
We need to hire a professional lobbyist group to vocalize our interests.How does the general joe blow public defeat this? How do you fight Y2Y..?
How do we get him some funding?We have someone that is working hard on many aspects of this in Alberta and has brodened his horizons and is even reaching out to the peace country today, in northern BC. His name is Garrett, Cklink69, on this site. https://www.snowandmud.com/members/28499.html Glad to have him on board and to have met and working with him.
"and way of life for indigenous peoples" ..... WTF? are they hunting the Caribou? maybe they're the reason the Caribou population is declining? LOL
"The proposal includes designated areas for all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles"
Sounds great but here's the rub: the "designated areas" will probably limit OHV trails to 0.7 linear km per square kilometer of land, same as they've done down south.
Do the math and realize they've just reduced your legal riding area to less than 1% of what it used to be.
I don't know, guys. I think our advocacy might have worked. As far as I could tell, they say that the current motorized trail plan for the Bighorn Backcountry is going to be honoured, and its staying as PLUZ all along Abraham to Cline River
Valid point, they do indeed mention maintaining OHV access a fair amount.
My concern is their track record down south with Castle/Oldman/Porcupine has been underhanded and sneaky. Case in point - placing the staging areas away from the designated camping spots, providing no parking at the staging area, then ticketing people for riding ATV's the couple hundred yards from their campsite to the trailhead.
Typical sneaky NDP approach allowing them to claim they are "supporting OHV use" while effectively killing it from a practical perspective.
I hope I'm wrong and they do leave reasonable OHV access in Bighorn, but at this point I'm assuming the worst.