Lake Louise Community Plan

PART II: RESOURCE PROTECTION

View of Lake Louise and Plain of Six Glaciers.
© Parks Canada/2000

A PLACE FOR NATURE
. . . Protecting Banff's Ecological Resources

“The National Parks of Canada are hereby dedicated to the people of Canada for their benefit, education and enjoyment and shall be maintained and made use of so as to leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”

National Parks Act

POLICY DIRECTION

The park’s management plan identifies ecological integrity as the cornerstone of its mandate and outlines the contribution Lake Louise must make to environmental protection. Measures include:

• limiting the number of overnight guests
  
  
• allowing operators to expand to their assigned limits
  
  
• prohibiting the development of new land outside the Hamlet for commercial purposes
  
  
• reviewing the impact of the Harry’s Hill residential area and prohibiting expansion of the boundary around Harry’s Hill
  
  
• removing the Trailer Court by 2005
  

The management plan allows some growth in Lake Louise. This growth will be limited and subject to conditions that benefit the park.

In the spring of 1998, the Federal Government announced there would be no new commercial accommodation operations.

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