Access Near Aquatic Areas

A Guide to Sensitive Planning, Design, and Management

This document provides a guide to balancing conservation with planning, design and management of access near aquatic areas. It focuses on settlement lands and is intended for use by municipal and regional parks planners and staff, landscape architects, consultants, field staff of environmental agencies, and community conservation groups. It will also be of interest to individual land owners with environmentally sensitive lands who need to manage access issues on private property.