What We Do
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.
The Cascadia Partner Forum envisions a region where our environment is resilient to the impacts of climate change, where residents with diverse life experiences and values—rural and urban communities, landowners, Native Tribes and First Nations, policy-makers, natural resource and economic development decision-makers—understand the dynamic nature of the Cascadian landscape and are working together to conserve connected networks of lands and waters, their diversity, naturally functioning and able to adapt, so that native fish and wildlife and people have flexible options far into the future.
Our M.O. is simple - we bring people together around regional priorities and a shared regional vision to foster collaboration, share information, and actively develop shared strategies while creating a durable network of natural resource practitioners across boundaries.
What We Achieve Together
Coordination and information sharing on priority issues and regional climate adaptation news.
Annual meetings to share information, create connections amongst our network, and inform our workplans.
A deeper sense of place.
Co-development of a regional climate adaptation strategy process with initial products available in November 2021 including a dynamic spatial tool to support planning and monitoring.
.A shared vision for a resilient Cascadia, including contributions from our ongoing Resilient Futures project.
How we work
The Cascadia Partner Forum is driven by the people who participate. We aim to communicate and engage with an open network of partners and other regional landscape partnerships through our website, e-newsletter, webinars, and meetings. A Leadership Council meets quarterly to exchange information and ideas to foster progress on behalf of the forum’s efforts to build the adaptive capacity of the landscape and species living within it, leveraging the work of forum committees and subgroups while making vital connections to our larger regional network and emerging opportunities.
A structure of high functioning work groups meet regularly to support our priority issues network and Cascadia Climate Adaptation Strategy.
“An effective strategy can't be done without collaboration and thought across borders. At the end of the day, we need to be having conversations that help us to inform policy that will affect policy on both sides of the border.”
— Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Environment and Climate Change
From an interview with Cascadia Partner Forum