Algonquin Park Cottage Property Lease Expiry

[tweedwolfscream]

Algonquin is unique in Ontario logging-wise, I don't think there is logging in any other Ontario provincial park and certainly not in any of the feds' national parks. I think I can accept the logging more readily than the cottages. Reason being, the logging is part of a compromise that was agreed upon in creating the park, in order to satisfy local economic interests while at least being able to have the park, and park management plans have reduced loggable areas over time and kept logging away from ecologically and recreationally important features. Whereas the cottages, as Old Timer points out, were originally put on a lease with an expiry date, there was no agreement that the arrangement would continue in perpetuity. So accepting the logging is sort of "our" part of the bargain as park stakeholders (those of us who camp, canoe, or fish there), while we have no obligation towards the cottagers. These are just vague thoughts anyway, I'm sure I'd feel differently if my family had a cottage there...