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AWA Comments on Parks Canada’s Application for OECM Recognition of Ya Ha Tinda Ranch

May 12, 2023

Parks Canada is working on an application to recognize Ya Ha Tinda Ranch as an Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measure (OECM). Ya Ha Tinda is a horse ranch 1.5 km outside of Banff National Park, that is operated by Parks Canada and owned by the Government of Canada.

If the application is successful, the Ranch will contribute towards Canada’s goal to conserve 25 percent of lands and waters by 2023, and 30 percent by 2030.

As part of Parks Canada’s stakeholder engagement process, AWA provided a comment letter outlining our support for OECM recognition of Ya Ha Tinda Ranch and our considerations. AWA’s comment letter can be found here.

No public hearings are scheduled. Only one Alberta organization, the Alberta Wilderness Association, is independent enough that it continues championing public land and the people's right of access to it. So people must speak individually, as they have so many times before, directly to the premier, the minister of Sustainable Resource Development and their MLA, and remind them of what public land means to all of us, that none of it is surplus to our needs, that we do not want it sold.
- Bob Scammell, 2003
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