Originally published at: Five-Year RAF Deal Extends Backcountry Airstrip Collaboration
Five-year memorandum outlines coordination with Bureau of Land Management on aviation access and maintenance.
Very good.
In contrast, Parks Canada’s eco-fools wanted to eliminate the long-established landing strip beside Freeway 1 between Calgary and Banff AB.
Never mind wildlife were quite used to noise, given heavy trucks and hotrod jurks on the highway.
I’ll grant that any very near the strip in the rare event of an airplane making an emergency landing could be scared, though they may notice them at altitude if pilots stay somewhat low.
(Fenced, I recall - definitely from the highway to keep animals off of it (they like to get early grass which grows beside highway, in winter may lick salt from side of road.)
Yes, animals like easy access to salt, porcupines really need it as their metabolism does not handle it like other mammals (that’s why they chew into doors and boxes humans have handled).
BC highways maintainers got smart and moved Beware Animals signs to where they’d been observed most often (access routes, and curves IIRC as salt accumulates there).
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