Title
WCS Canada Comments - Off Road Vehicle Questionnaire - March 2019
Author(s)
Don Reid
Published
2019
Abstract
We strongly support this initiative by the Yukon Territorial Government to establish a Regulation that would make operational a provision in the Territorial Lands (Yukon) Act for the establishment of Off-Road Vehicle Management Areas (ORV MAs). By putting prohibitions and restrictions on ORV use within large management areas, society will have a tool to at least partially preclude or constrain the ongoing proliferation of ORV use and trail development which is happening across the entire territory. We are encouraged that the intention of government is to establish some ORV MAs in regions where land use planning has already provided such direction (e.g., the Peel watershed, Kusawa Territorial Park). We argue, however, that ORV MAs are not the only regulatory tool that government needs to consider in dealing with the problems ORVs create for wetlands and for ongoing trail development. We suggest specific mechanisms regarding trail permitting and wetland policy development that government needs to consider in addition to ORV MAs.
Keywords
Off road vehicle; ORV; territorial lands; Yukon; trails
Full Citation
REGULATING OFF-ROAD VEHICLES IN YUKON RESPONSE BY WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADA TO THE YUKON GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS AND QUESTIONS Prepared by Don Reid, WCS Canada, Whitehorse 26 March 2019
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