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Public weighs in on Joffre Lakes Provincial Park management

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Abuse it, and we lose it.
Such is the case for Joffre Lakes Provincial Park, and everywhere else...
The easiest and perhaps laziest method for government to manage an area is via restrictions, closures and quotas.
If the public makes a mess of a park or wilderness space, we are providing ample justification for government (BC Parks in this case) to choose the management style of restrictions, quotas, bans, fees and closures.
Our choice, our consequences.
 
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The results are in and it turns out that the majority of respondents to the Joffre Lakes Provincial Park Survey are supportive of day-use fees and a cap on the number of daily visitors.

BC Parks ran the online survey in April, garnering just over 2,500 respondents, with the majority between the ages of 25 and 34 and hailing from the Lower Mainland.

Just over 70 per cent of respondents said they would be willing to pay a day-use fee to enter the park if they knew that the money was being reinvested into the park.

And 84 per cent of respondents said they would agree with "limiting the number of day visitors in the park" if it meant they were "guaranteed easier access."...

That, perhaps, may have to do with a general dissatisfaction with the visitor experience: 75 per cent of respondents said that the number of people in the park had "a negative" impact on their visit.The survey is part of a comprehensive effort by the province to address a host of issues associated with the popularity of the park, which features spectacular views of three pristine alpine lakes and a relatively easy hike.

It will inform a forthcoming visitor-use management strategy set to be released in 2020.