Lots in the new recently about our Provincial Government trying to set up eight new parks in the Bighorn region. This includes some Provincial Parks, some Recreation Areas and some Wilderness areas. Currently this is all Crown land under limited protection. People treat it like the wild west and head out there and do whatever they want. Random camping, ATV riding anywhere and everywhere, lots of litter and garbage left around, and little respect shown for the land.
This area is just to the west of our property in Nordegg so I am very much in favor of seeing it better protected and some rules and limitations put into place. The public is really up in arms about this but I think it is mostly the manner in which the government tried to push this through, with little to no consultation. But it seems to me that it is mostly the rednecks that want to see it unregulated that take the biggest exception to the idea. I am just about the biggest redneck in the world, but I would like to see this area protected and some rules in place. I'm certainly no fan of our socialist NDP government and would never vote for them, but this is one of the very few good ideas they have put forward. I really hope it gets put into effect despite all the resistance.
This image was taken last November when my friend Jon and I were staying out at the cottage. We drove an hour west to an area that is currently the Kootenay Plains Ecological Reserve. Currently this is just a narrow strip of land, a few hundred meters wide on either side of the David Thompson Highway. The plan is to enlarge it and turn it in David Thompson Provincial Park with much tighter regulations and limitations to the use. I hope the plan proceeds as the area is spectacular.
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