Province Will Continue to Examine OHV Use on Public Lands
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SOUTHERN ALBERTA – Earlier this week, Lethbridge News Now spoke to the Livingstone Landowners Guild, as they push the province to restrict the use of off-highway vehicles (OHV) on public lands in Alberta.
They are asking for off-highway vehicles to be limited to properly designed trails, and restricted from public lands that are classified as critical wildlife or prime protection areas.
In following up with Environment and Parks Minister, Shannon Phillips, she noted that the matter is on their radar, “We are looking at how we are resourcing these activities, we are looking at how we do trail maintenance and so on, we’re looking at how we better support families to go camping, and how we better support angling and hunting through proper enforcement, those are things the previous government refused to do.”
That said, Phillips acknowledged that the process will take some time, “We don’t have enough resources to do it properly right now, and so we need to have a look at how we can reallocate things within the department, and eventually look at how we can put this on a more sustainable path, and so that is one of the reasons that this process will move along relatively slowly over the next year, year and a half.”
