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Originally Posted by Sliver
Isn't the answer in your first sentence? The mandate is protecting and sharing natural areas and wildlife for future generations. You're hardly sharing them if the only way for people to experience them is to cram into half a dozen attractions so long as you show up at 4:30 a.m. to get your spot.
Banff National park is 1.6 million acres.
The townsites of Lake Louise and Banff combined are 1399 acres.
We have to combat this narrative that these natural areas are becoming overrun. They're not. It's that our population has grown, demand has increased at least proportionally, and we need to accommodate that demand by increasing access to more of the sites in the national park. It's perfectly consistent with the mandate to do so.
Right now we're doing jack #### for future generations and it's shameful.
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I'm not so sure that
the youths would agree that it's shameful that we aren't putting highways, lodges, and developments everywhere in our national parks for their sake.