The following information was provided by Shaun Peter of Bragg Creek and Kananaskis Outdoor Recreation (BCKOR)

Bragg Creek Trails and Moose Mtn Trails are extremely vital to Outdoor Recreation. 

more than 300,000 visitors a year 

~$6.5M invested in trails

over 250km of trails

~100,000 volunteer hours

All of this investment has made this area, the second most popular recreation area in Alberta next to the Canmore Nordic Centre.

The Outdoor Recreation Industry provides:

$2.8 Billion GDP to our province

36,000 full time job equivalent

$551 Million in Alberta tax revenue 

(ATIA 2021: Alberta’s Crown Land Outdoor Recreation Economy  https://silkstart.s3.amazonaws.com/53871da4-c2ad-4589-b73a-7569e930d2ac.pdf

This logging plan only represents 0.019% of the 475,000 ha SLS is entitled to log, but the 900 ha planned to be clear-cut, covers roughly 1/3 of the Moose Mountain and West Bragg recreation trails.

While this harvest will provide a one time economic benefit to the province, it will have a very negative effect on the recreation industry that it supports for decades to come.

This logging plan is also not a firesmart plan and will not follow firesmart procedures centered around reducing fire hazard. It’s questionable whether there will be any reduction in fire hazard, or if it may actually increase the fire hazard. We should not be harvesting any areas in the path of the predominant wind, without following firesmart procedures.