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A Positive Approach to Trail Advocacy

October 1, 2016

October/December 2016 Wildland Advocate article, by Glen Mumey.

Our family travels trails by foot, ski, and snowshoe – we are foot-propelled (FP) trail users. Naturally, we view with interest the extensive policy discussions in Alberta – especially regarding the southwest corner where we live. The general policy approach from organizations that represent FP users is a negative one – exclude off-road vehicles from our pathways. As things stand, though, there are many gasoline-propelled (GP) users, and we live in a democracy, so these recommendations often do not succeed.  Either by permission, or by default through lack of rule enforcement, the quads and snowmobiles remain a substantial presence.

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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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