Lands Adjacent to the Town of Banff Final Report

Lands Adjacent to the Town of Banff
External Advisory Committee
8. Implementation
1. When the LATB recommendations become an amendment to the Park Management Plan,
establish a LATB implementation committee whose responsibilities will include:
• Ongoing advice regarding trails and other issues
• Assistance in identifying partnerships
• Advice regarding new or emerging issues
• Advice regarding changing priorities
• Representation of sector interests
• Supporting Parks Canada’s implementation of Key Actions
• Advice regarding appropriate human use management tools in specific situations
• Meeting with Parks Canada twice a year
2. Where a permanent loss of a recreational opportunity is unavoidable, all alternative possibilities
should be explored for replacing the opportunity
3. Where seasonal closures or restrictions are required (e.g. to protect nesting waterfowl, to protect
wet trails, to avoid conflicts with wildlife), provide explanatory information on-site and off-site
and direct visitors to alternative opportunities
4. All Objectives and Key Actions will be subject to strategic and project specific environmental
assessments and peer review
5. Develop a communication plan, in association with the Town of Banff, the Province of Alberta and
stakeholders, to provide coordinated information, including directional, educational, interpretive
and recreational opportunity information
6. Priorities for implementation:
The advisory group has listed 77 Key Actions for achieving its objectives of improving visitor
experiences and ecological integrity in the LATB area. The group has identified the following
items as the top priorities for implementation:
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Improved communications for visitors
This includes orientation and directional information via signs and maps,
including maps for distribution by businesses (Implementation 8.5)
A structure for safe, multi-use crossing of the TCH and CPR (General 1.2.1)
A trail from Vermilion Lakes to the Five Mile interchange
(Vermilion Lakes 5.2.7)
A “ring” trail around the Town of Banff (General 1.2.6)
Trail and site hardening where needed (e.g. Marsh Loop, Hoodoos, riverside trail
east of Tunnel Mountain) (General 1.2.6)
Trail connection from the Town of Banff to the crossing structure
(Tunnel Mountain 7.2.2)
Tunnel Mountain trail system (Tunnel Mountain 7.2.5)
Commuter trail between Banff and Canmore
(General 1.2.6 and Tunnel Mountain 7.2.8))
Improved trails from the Upper Hot Springs area to the Banff Springs Hotel and
the Town of Banff (Sulphur/Sundance 6.2.6)
Improved trailhead facilities (including washrooms, information)
(General 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 and Key Action 1 in each section)
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