Priority Issues

Establishing specific priority issues to increase knowledge, coordination, and attention towards is important in focusing and directing our work.

In setting these issues, we recognize that there are always high priorities and important topics in addition to what we identify. Priority issues can include ecosystem processes, natural resources, species, and management issues. We envision these as complementing working group focused discussions in our climate adaptation strategy, and evolving over time to include additional issues.

Issues selected have transboundary importance and benefit from regional coordination, while emerged as both important and timely to partner forum members at one of our annual meetings. The first set of priority issues was established in 2012, and the list has evolved since then. We aim to highlight and promote existing information, coordination, and plans for priority issues in Cascadia while seeking where our forum can be value added.