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| Trip Planning » Kearney office hours » 8/23/2018 12:09 pm |
So what would you do after Thanksgiving if you wanted to go into the Park via the Kearney office? How would you get your permit on, say a Wednesday, if the office is open only from Friday to Sunday?
| Ethics » Doug Ford's "clean up our parks" promise » 6/18/2018 8:33 pm |
"In 2015/2016, sales values of forest products by the Algonquin Forestry Authority were $20.6 million. Contractors engaged from communities in the region were paid $19 million, and the AFA had a net income of $ 650,000. The AFA is financially self-sufficient with no cost to the taxpayers.
Based on a 2015/2016 harvest level of 423,641 m3, the Algonquin Park Forest contributed $356 million to the Ontario economy in terms of value added. "
Why is it that protected areas so often have to be based in large part on their economic value? It's a rare park these days in Canada or elsewhere in the world that a park is supported principally on its ecological values.
| Catch-all Discussions » Are predictions for ice-out starting yet? » 5/02/2016 6:54 pm |
Dan, ccouldn't have said it better myself! I'm deeply disappointed in the lack of action taken by ON Parks. Some of us who would have headed into the park today or tomorrow if the green light had gone on. Not to update their website - instead, the department uses stale, dated, almost week-long data- at such an interesting and crucial part of the year seems unconscionable. What gives? There are many and varied reasons why many of us want to get into Algonquin as early as possible (not just fish, but frogs, sapsuckers, white-throats, yellow-rumps). It seems as if the gate-keepers are tone-deaf.
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