210224 Note of meeting

CAIRNGORMS LOC­AL OUT­DOOR ACCESS FOR­UM Wed­nes­day 24^th Feb­ru­ary 2021 from 6.00pm – 8.00pm Lifes­ize Meet­ing Room: https://​call​.lifes​ize​cloud​.com/​9​88805

MEET­ING NOTE

Attend­ance |Who | Rep­res­ent| | — — — — — — — — — — -| — — — — — — — — — — | |John Gri­er­son |LOAF Chair | |Dav­id Clyne|CNPA| |Pete Crane|CNPA| |Adam Streeter Smith|CNPA| |Tre­vor Thorley|LOAF| |Eilidh M Scobbie|LOAF| |Neil Wilson|LOAF| |Pete Wright|LOAF| |Elean­or Mackintosh|CNPA Board Mem­ber| Apo­lo­gies |Paul Hibbard|FLS|

Paper I Scot­tish Out­door Access Code/​Tread Lightly update

Dis­cus­sion with wide­spread sup­port for a stronger mes­sage on fires giv­en the risk of wild­fires dur­ing dry peri­ods and to forests, wood­land, and peat land. Mem­bers also recog­nised the chal­lenge of cumu­lat­ive impacts at key hot­spots and that fire rings and oth­er signs of camp­fires are unsightly, inter­fere with oth­er enjoy­ment and often res­ult in litter.

Mem­bers were keen to suggest:

• Need to get pri­or arrival mes­saging right and out to the right audiences
• Mes­saging does need to be spe­cif­ic as nuance means the mes­sage could be lost
• Need to con­sider mes­saging and advice to groups who use fires, with per­mis­sion, for example, branch­ing out and forest schools:
• Dogs mes­sage needs to be clear around livestock:
• Mes­sages need to refer to roles of rangers

Paper 2 CNPA Access case work review

Dis­cus­sion on the level of detail to be included in the case work updates with mem­bers have dif­fer­ing require­ments. The Chair reminded the for­um that the level of detail would be main­tained at a high level only. Indi­vidu­al case stud­ies will be presen­ted as necessary.

Paper 3 NLHF Her­it­age Hori­zons fund­ing application

Mem­bers sup­port­ive of CNPA on the proposals.

Next meet­ing

June 2021 TBC