BC Parks pulls statistical report after significant errors are identified

In my day job as philosopher and University Lecturer, when I deal with an object, idea, or problem, I ask three simple questions.

1) Where did the problem/idea come from?

2) What is the problem/idea today?

3) Where is this problem/idea going in the future?

It is the same as asking "Where do I come from, Who am I today, where am I going?"

This article with Steve Jones suggests to me that BC Parks hasn't even begun to understand any of these basic questions. I assert however, that BC Parks is anything but alone in not knowing the answer to these fundamental questions.

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Mistakes suggest wider mismanagement and underfunding, says parks advocate

VISITATION TO BC PARKS, by most estimation, has grown in recent years.

But that's not what was borne out in the agency's most recent statistics report, which covers from March 2017 to March 2018.

It found a slight decrease in total park attendance from the previous year: from 24,815,157 to 23,562,482.

Moreover, it noted a dramatic drop in visitation to South Coast parks, saying visitation decreased by about 2 million visitors between 2016-17 and 2017-18.

Most glaringly, the report said that Mount Seymour Park went from 930,650 to 487,085 visitors (a drop of almost 50 per cent), and busy Cypress Provincial Park went from 1,712,879 visitors to 208,453 visitors (a drop of nearly 90 per cent).

The discrepancies—which fly in the face of anecdotal evidence—were pointed out by local outdoor recreation advocate Steve Jones, and BC Parks responded quickly by taking the report off of its website and pledging to review the report and correct any errors, but not before some media outlets reported the faulty data.

Full Article: https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler-news/bc-parks-pulls-statistical-report-after-significant-errors-are-identified-2507583