Cottage/Cabin Development

Background/overview

Cabins are considered an important social and recreational asset for many Newfoundlanders and provide an important economic stimulus in rural Newfoundland. The hunting and fishing opportunities available in the Grand Falls-Windsor – Baie Verte – Harbour Breton region provide a complementary environment for cabin and cottage development. However, as a permanent fixture on the landscape, these buildings and their uses can also have important environmental impacts that must be considered such as the impairment of water quality, intruding upon wildlife habitat, increasing hunting and fishing pressures and destruction by ATV use of remote environmentally sensitive areas. They can also cause crowding around important fish and game resources and remove productive forest land from commercial forestry activity.

Land-use related issues

In addition to concerns related to impacts on remote environmentally sensitive areas, crowding of fishing and hunting areas, and removal from forestry production, traditional cabins and inheritance rights have been identified as an issue because as respondents explained, families cannot inherit traditional cabins located within forest management areas after the last registered owner has died.

Related information resources

http://www.env.gov.nl.ca/env/env_assessment/projects/Y2011/1589/1589_registration.pdf

 

http://www.env.gov.nl.ca/env/env_assessment/projects/Y2011/1589/index.html

 

http://www.env.gov.nl.ca/env/env_assessment/projects/Y2010/1497/index.html

 

http://www.env.gov.nl.ca/env/env_assessment/projects/Y2008/1371/1371_burnt_berry_pond_reg.pdf

 

http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/habitat/what-quoi/os-eo/nl/pdf/cottage-eng.pdf

 

http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/habitat/what-quoi/os-eo/nl/cottage-eng.asp