AOHVA Comment to GAMP Plan May 30 2005

¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾¾AOHVA Comment to: Draft Ghost-Waiparous - Operational Access Plan Date: May 30 2005 The Alberta Off-Highway Vehicle Association (AOHVA) believes that in order to create effective access management plans; there are standard project management principles and processes that must be utilized to ensure success. These processes are standard practices in industry when embarking on a project of this scale. We wish to offer SRD our view of these principles pertaining to land access planning: Comprehensive land management and equitable treatment demands that all users impacting a plan area have their impacts assessed simultaneously within comparable protocols. This includes industry, commercial operators, grazing and all recreational uses. Stakeholder buy-in requires extensive stakeholder to stakeholder face to face processes/interaction throughout the planning process. Protocols, definitions, assessment criterion and other key parameters for the plan along with acceptable impact mitigation measures should be established and agreed to by stakeholders at the outset. Fair and transparent plans require open communication of meeting minutes, data, progress reports, maps, studies, etc. to all stakeholders on a non-preferential basis as to scope and timing. An informed public is to be sought not avoided by restricting information distribution. Objective science should be the determining factor for modification, mitigation, or ...