Banff National Park plan focuses on climate change, traffic, Indigenous relations
Canada’s busiest national park aims to look for better ways to help visitors get around in the coming years as it works to address climate change and strengthen Indigenous relations.
“Canadians expect us to go from talking about climate change to taking some action,” said Sal Rasheed, superintendent for Banff, which attracts more than four million visitors a year. The 2022 plan has removed a reference to gondolas, which Rasheed said means a proposal for cable cars to the Mount Norquay ski hill from the Banff townsite is off the table.The plan doesn’t rule out a high-speed passenger train from Calgary, but says twinning an existing rail line could lead to more wildlife deaths in the park, a concern also raised by environmental groups.
“For example, recently, we’ve been rethinking how we do cultural burning on our landscape. We are trying to braid Indigenous knowledge into our western approach to fire management.”
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