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What’s next for BC Parks in an era of declining budgets and continued growth of the tourism industry?

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Steve Jones in the Medium presented four possible outcomes/solutions for the current decline of BC Parks funding. I have provided a few additional options below worthy of consideration.

  1. Quotas and Closures
  2. Downgrade Facilities
  3. Increase Fees
  4. Commercialize the Parks

https://medium.com/@stevejoneshikes/whats-next-for-bc-parks-in-an-era-of-declining-budgets-and-continued-growth-of-the-tourism-991b1f9eebbd

My Solutions

5) Stop punishing, issuing fines, shutting down and repelling individual volunteers and volunteer groups (with obfuscation, excuses, avoidance, needless delays and mountains of red tape) from improving trails and facilities within parks. Why keep rejecting and punishing free labour? Why not encourage, support and partner with the eager and the willing?
6) Spend the budget you have better. For brevity, I won't list the waste and mistakes here. 
7) Return to the original mission statement as outlined by the BCMC founders in the 1950s.
If BC Parks can't do number 5 to 7, I fail to see why they deserve additional funding. Or if the agency is truly too far gone to consider 5 - 7, perhaps consider the nuclear options below:
8) Reset the agency, purge, drain the swamp and start all over again with new staff and management. 
9) Re-assign many of our parks to other Government agencies such as Metro Vancouver