I would like to know in who's brain,, in who's mind is it safer to put domesticated animals out there with wild animals than it is to have a machine out there. My machine has no disease has never had any toxic chemicals fed to it that it transfers to wild game. And before you go on a rant about gas and oil,, very few machines leak any oil and if they do the amount they may leave is absolutely minute in any way. These cattle and horses sit in pens all winter being fed grasses that are not native to a lot of areas, we load them with antibodies to fight disease some of these cattle not all are penned in confinement in crowded pens all winter. Then somehow its safer to take that animal a let it loose in the wild with what ever it has been exposed to all winter we let it go in the wild with our wild game.. Some how this is safer than a non organic machine going in those same lands..Just blows my mind,, there is just no rationality there..
I sit on this committee and we had out spring/summer meeting the other day.There was a good deal of enforcement on the May long weekend and there will be a good deal of enforcement of the Public Lands Act regulations (PLAR) this summer and into the fall.Some stats from ESRD rep. on what happened on the May long weekend pointed to less people out in the area west of Rocky/Sundre area this year but more regulations violations and more emergency room visits at the hospitals in Rocky and Sundre.NO FATALITIES this year.More people putting garbage in the dumpsters put out in the west country and less trash at random campsites. A fairly high number of campfires left unattended (left the campsite and didn't put out their fires).A fairly high number of people picked up on outstanding warrants. (who knew criminals liked camping on the long weekend so much)The fellow from Forestry Recreation had talked to some Forestry staff in Whitecourt and they said they had interviewed some "campers" who said they used to go west of Rocky but do not go there any more because there is an enforcement officer behind every tree and they keep getting stopped and checked.
OHVs driving in streams is a big one. There have been some regulation changes that maybe getting more enforcement and more tickets and less warnings given out.Prohibition 43 No person, other than an employee, agent or contractor of theGovernment of Alberta who is carrying out the person’s duties, shall enter on or occupy vacant public land that is a bed or shore of a permanent and naturally occurring body of water or a naturally occurring river, stream, watercourse or lake except(a) where the entry and occupation is for a recreational purpose that(i) involves boating,(ii) involves travel on frozen ground or on ice capable of holding the weight of the conveyance without making a depression on the ground or ice or breaking the ice, or(iii) does not involve the use of a wheeled or tracked conveyance,(b) in accordance with a disposition issued or a consent given to the person under the Act, or(c) where the person has a lawful right to be on the land or the entry or occupation is expressly permitted in an applicable disturbance standard or in a disposition issued to the person. - See more at: Deerman how did they come up with this data ? What is the source of here ?
Some of the most productive fisheries in this province like the, Athabasca, Peace River, Pembina, North Sask, South Sask (which by the way feeds every one of those southern Res and canals of its fish) every one of these fisheries when it rains are nothing more than mud holes. For 2 months every spring during the mountain melt that SS river is a slew,, you cant see 6" in that water. The Walleye turn a faded white yellow from lack of sunlight. The banks fall in,, huge banks spewing thousand of yards of loose silt and sand into the river. Yet these rivers all remain staple spawning grounds, has anybody ever thought this out.. Yes some rivers have been miss treated, with logging done up to the banks along huge hill sides resulting in clogged rivers, but this is a far cry from a few machines using a crossing. Instead of taking the "my way or no way" stance and regulating people out of an area why not have designated crossings for people to use why would this be any harder to enforce than having no crossings. Put some bloody common sense into it, but of course there would be no fines levied,, no money in that to stuff in the union pockets now would there be.All the time and effort and recourses and money put into running around and fining people and turning this bloody place into a Police State,, all this would be much better put to use in building crossings putting in garbage bins, putting up fire pits. Make something for the people don't regulate the ass out of everything,, quit regulating people out of the outdoors..
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