Cascades International Park: A Case Study‪.‬

Abstract An alliance of Canadian and American environmental groups proposed a Cascades International Park in 1994. The goal was better coordination of management in the trans-boundary area, guided by emerging conservation biology, which would lead to better resource protection, especially for biodiversity. Regionwide management of federal and Crown land would, it was hoped, result in greater likelihood of conservation of ecological systems than the current management approaches. No new parks were proposed, but rather greater coordination of management of existing protected areas. Three principal ideas were behind the proposal: landscape management; ecosystem management; and integrated management.