Working together across boundaries
We bring people together around regional priorities and a shared vision to foster collaboration, exchange information, and actively develop strategies while creating a durable network of natural resource practitioners.
Formed by practitioners in Washington and British Columbia’s Cascade mountains in the summer of 2012, the Cascadia Partner Forum fosters a network of natural resource practitioners working with partner entities to build the adaptive capacity of the landscape and species living within it.
Cascadia Region
Cascadia is a term that has been used to define many regions that include the Cascade mountain range and surrounding communities. For the purposes of the Cascadia Partner Forum, Cascadia is defined as a transboundary region shared between Washington and British Columbia that is centered around the Cascades mountains. The defined scope of Cascadia for the purposes of this forum is robust enough to allow for ecological and social discussions important to the transboundary Cascades mountain region, while including natural expansions to this geography as we address priority issues and critical habitat connections that the Cascades depend on to other large ecosystems.
Priority Issues
Establishing specific priority issues to increase knowledge, coordination, and attention towards is important in focusing and directing our partner forum’s work. In doing so, we recognize that there are always high priorities and important topics in addition to what we identify. Issues include ecosystem processes, natural resources, species, and management issues. We envision these as an important current focus of the forum, complementing discussions in the climate adaptation strategy, and evolving over time to include additional issues.
“Climate matters for almost everything we know in the natural and human world. The big answer to what are the dangers or risks around climate change is that it's everywhere….Responding to climate change requires that we look at the whole picture, and that we work together across boundaries.”
— Amy Snover, UW Climate Impacts Group
Quote from interview with the Cascadia Partner Forum