Editor: Being dedicated Calgary subscribers to the Rocky Mountain Outlook, we receive our publication about a week after its publishing date.
On Friday, Sept. 2 we received the Aug. 25 edition that featured the Gran Fondo bike race on the front cover.
We need to express our frustration, anger and disappointment that this race is still being allowed in a national park, especially at a crucial time when wildlife is attempting to fatten up for the winter.
With page 15 featuring a grizzly bear pigging out on berries and the headline on page 37 stating Grizzly bears dominate Banff Gran Fondo again, we question whether this sanctioned disruption should continue.
Numerous people are saddened by the destruction of our treasured and vulnerable wildlife – see letter Wolf deaths a tragedy – yet Parks Canada bends to the will of the cycling community that appears to insist it is their right to hold this race where wildlife abounds.
National parks were not founded for sporting events but to, supposedly, protect the creatures and their habitat.
Carol and Peter Tracey,
Calgary
