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1 - What formal relationships currently exist between Ontario Parks, Algonquin Park, and the Friends of Algonquin (OP, park and FOA) .. their decision-making, programs, staffing and funding?
2 - What framework of relations do these three bodies each prefer to see exist between themselves and the ABR? What part of these envisioned frameworks are determined by legal limitations and which are the result of discretion and choice?
3 - What are the historical and present staff positions and levels in all park programs .. including MNR, contracts, Ontario Parks, Conservation Officers, The Friends of Algonquin, etc? And, how does that vary between summer and other seasons?
4 - How much information could the OP/park make available to the ABR on an ongoing basis, concerning Algonquin Park's operations, staffing, funding, contracting, programs, projects, statistical data analysis, campsite/portage changes?
5 - What is the anticipated schedule of the Land Claims process, the review of the Park Management Plan, response to the "Recommendations of the OPB" in "Lightening the Ecological Footprint of Logging" and the AFA's 2010 Forest Management Plan Renewal?
6 - What negative impact on the OP/park's regular budget, staff, work-load and programs can we expect these four (above) processes to have?
7 - What is the process by which the ABR can provide input into the upcoming review of the Algonquin Park Management Plan?
8 - Would the ABR's intent to retain its option to lobby (on issues affecting the park's backcountry's management, maintenance and funding) limit the OP/park/FOA ability or willingness to enter into co-operative programs and/or projects with the ABR?
9 - Would the OP/park or FOA be receptive to searching for and adopting "shared strategies" with the ABR?
10 - Would the OP/park/FOA consider an "ABR page" (promoting low- impact practices) in its annual "Information Guide" newspaper as a viable "share strategy"?
11 - If the ABR were to produce a complementary single-issue "Low Impact" publication (in the same physical format as "The Raven"), would the ON/park/FOA carry it in their "booklet racks"?
12 - How would the OP/park respond to the idea of a "backcountry- specific" benefactor program with canoe-route or hiking-trail specific benefactor plaque-boards at access points or trailheads .. for the funding of the construction, repairs and improvement of backcountry facilities (replacement campsites, campsite restoration, portage boardwalks, landing docks, shoreline repairs, etc.)?
13 - How does the OP/park intend to increase or enhance the enforcement of regulations (relating to noise, trash, vandalism, fishing infractions, disorderly conduct) in the backcountry of the park?
14 - Has the OP/park considered combining their newly developed "Comment System" with the numbering of each campsite on each lake, so that maintenance requirements can be more easily identified and reported? This proposed numbering does not infer that specific campsites be reserved.
15 - How does the OP/park respond to the idea of a "backcountry- specific" volunteer labour program (involving adults in 1 week time- blocks supervised by OP/park staff) for the construction, repairs and improvement of backcountry facilities (replacement campsites, campsite restoration, portage boardwalks, landing docks, shoreline repairs, etc.)?
16 - How does the OP/park respond to the idea of a "backcountry- specific" volunteer labour program (involving either highschool students or highschool student/parent combinations, earning the students' community-volunteer hours, in 1 week time-blocks supervised by OP/park staff) for the construction, repairs and improvement of backcountry facilities (replacement campsites, campsite restorations, portage boardwalks, landing docks, shoreline repairs, etc.)?
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