From: tara ryan [tryanrex@hotmail.com]
Sent: December 8, 2008 12:34 PM
To: lpayette@nirb.ca
Cc: strahl.c@parl.gc.ca; prentice.j@parl.gc.ca; dshewchuk@gov.nu.ca
Subject: TOURISM SAYS NO!! Uravan Garry Lake Project -- NIRB File 08EN037
My name is Tara Ryan.  I am a professional Canadian wildlife guide.
Over the past 15 years I have had the pleasure of guiding with a 
variety of companies throughout Canada - particularly in the north.
 
People from around the globe come to Canada to experience her 
beauty and revel in her wilderness.  From purely an economic stand point
allowing mineral exploration on a caribou calving ground is asinine. How can 
one short term, resource-based concern rate higher than long-term gains
of local traditional use as well as the ripple effect from well-managed tourism?
 
Please do not allow caribou to fail for short-term economic gain -- please say no 
to ANY extraction-based growth UNTIL substantial research is done on how said
'development' effects herd movement, calving grounds, etc.  These studies MUST include
how human movement (air traffic in particular), drilling and pipelines alter populations.

 
thank you for you attention, 
 


Tara Ryan BFA, BEd
professional guide
Scenic Tours
Frontiers North Adventures
Cruise North Expeditions



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