Working together across boundaries
We bring people together to foster transboundary collaboration in support of a resilient, connected Cascadia.
Formed by practitioners in Washington and British Columbia’s Cascade mountains in the summer of 2012, the Cascadia Partner Forum fosters a transboundary network of natural resource practitioners working to build the adaptive capacity of the Cascadia landscape and the species living within it. The Forum’s work is guided by its Blueprint for a Resilient Cascadia.
Cascadia Region
Cascadia is a term that has been used to define many regions that include the Cascade Range and surrounding communities. For the purposes of the Cascadia Partner Forum, Cascadia is defined as a north-south corridor spanning the Cascade mountains and surrounding lowlands on either side of the border of Washington State, USA and British Columbia, Canada. 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 Cascade mountain region, while including natural expansions to this geography as we address priority issues and critical habitat connections with neighboring ecosystems.
Our Priority Issues
Establishing shared priority issues has been important in focusing and directing our partner forum’s work. We do so recognizing that there are always high priorities and important topics in addition to those we’ve selected. Our priority Issues include ecosystem processes, natural resources and species as well as management issues. We envision these as an important current focus of the forum, complementing discussions in the climate adaptation strategy and evolving over time.
“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, Former Director, UW Climate Impacts Group
Quote from interview with the Cascadia Partner Forum