[spurly]

In my opinion closing any water , is not going to help anything. Other than putting more pressure on the water that remains open. A knee jerk reaction, does not provide a solution to the problem. There needs to be more consultation, between biologists, and users, to come up with a more reasonable path, to follow. In the old days we used to have creek closures on alternate years. I would rather see this than complete closures of any water.
Like somebody above mentioned, non resident users, need to pay more.
We could have a classified waters fee, where fees collected from non residents go directly to help funding habitat projects on rivers, and streams needing help.
Limited rod days for non resident guides, on a user fee system. There are a ton of issues that could help way more than shutting down residents to any water in
Alberta. If they get away with this all water will be shut down soon. We need to send a strong message to Shannon Phillips, that this may be the last term she serves in this province. The govt. needs to show scientific data, or evidence that this is the best course to follow.
We are still waiting for that data on the grizzly situation, and we all know that is not going to turn around anytime soon.
Let our voices be heard, or we risk losing, one of our most passionate pass times