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Originally Posted by sjd
No-ones hunting is being taken away. Willmore is a park and hunting has been allowed for 30 years. Did hunting get banned because there are no ATVS? as is Cooking Lake Blackfoot, as are all the Wildland Parks that allow hunting.
Fishing is going to get better too, without all the trashed streams and less casual pressure.
This country is going to get a whole lot wilder. As an outdoorsman that is good news. The amount of places you can get away from the whine of an engine in this province is still tiny.
Hunters and ATV users are 2 very different groups - there is a bit of overlap obviously, but most OHV users don't represent my interests, or conservation, or the best interests of hunters.
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Yes, everything will get better. problem this is the first step to curtail the amount of "outdoors man" activities there will be. Look at Kananaskis. Areas closed to hunting. Other areas little or no general licences. Draw or guided hunts only. hope you have deep pockets or are happy to only go hunting every 3-5 years. its coming. having discharge permits is a good way to get a count on how many hunters are in there. all they need to do is say "its too many according to their calculations" and close/limit the access through draws. cant believe people cant see that.
so will the "experience" be better? probably "yes", for the fraction of the users there were in the past.
read the plan. in their words, hunting will be used as a management tool. not much different than other places, but you only need to look to kananaskis for a future frame work.