Purpose of The Grand Strategy

The "management plan" prepared for the Grand River is called The Grand Strategy. It identifies how its heritage* and recreational resources will be managed to maintain, celebrate, and honour its status as a Canadian Heritage River and explains how its role in the CHRS will be fulfilled.

The Grand Strategy represents a new approach in working together to continue to conserve and revitalize the river valley and its abundant assets and to enhance the quality of life.

The Grand Strategy does not impose any new legislation or regulations. It guides actions which:

• serve as a catalyst for the creation of new partnerships and voluntary coalitions of support;
• embody long-term commitments to the identification, protection, interpretation and sustainable use of the river's nationally recognized heritage;
• complement existing planning processes and management arrangements;
• enhance the quality of recreational opportunities; and,
• improve tourism and community economic development potential.
• In addition, The Grand Strategy may serve as a model for addressing the management of:
  • other resources within the watershed; and,
  • other second generation Canadian Heritage Rivers.

   

  The Grand Strategy is a dynamic, living document, developed with the assistance and support of watershed residents and agencies.

  * The Grand Strategy addresses the management of both the natural and human heritage resources, referred to collectively as "heritage resources".

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