I was running a program in Waterton Lakes National Park a couple of years ago, and I said to one of the rangers, “We're going to take the kids over here and we're going to roll back a rock.” The ranger said to me, “You're not going to do that in a national park.” I said, “Well, we'll put the rock back”, and he said, “You're not going to do that in a national park.” I asked why, and nobody could give me a really good reason. That's one example.
Fairly often, I'll see environmental educators saying to kids things like, “You can't touch that; nature is delicate.” The reality is, these places aren't museums. I believe they're works of art, but they're works of art that regenerate themselves.
If we're not using them... All we need to do is look at the legacy of Nemiskam National Park, which was de-established in 1947. We chased people out to the point that nobody went there anymore, and somebody said, “This is great farmland; let's use it as farmland.”