Banff National Park ski areas shrinking to protect wildlife, allow new development
File photo of the Rocky Mountains in Banff National Park in winter.
After passage, the legislation will amend the Canada National Parks Act to alter the boundaries of the Lake Louise Ski Area and Mount Norquay. In exchange for conceding wildlife corridors and parkland in the two ski areas, operators will be free to increase development within resort boundaries. For the Lake Louise Ski Resort, the trade means it can expand its parking lot, add lifts, and build new day lodges.
Markham said 466 hectares will be added for development under a licence of occupation, which restricts operation in the area to winter months.Summer landscape of Mount Norquay in the rocky mountains of Banff National Park, Alta. that Mount Norquay's former resort owners made a promise in the mid-1990s to forgo summer growth in favour of winter expansion.
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