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Crown of the Continent Ecosystem: The Crown Managers Partnership and Transboundary Collaborative Ecosystem Management
Crown of the Continent Ecosystem: The Crown Managers Partnership and Transboundary Collaborative Ecosystem Management
Thursday, October 23, 2014: 5:30 PM
Atrium Hall (Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center)
The Crown Managers Partnership (CMP) is a diverse group of science and resource management agencies who voluntarily come together to provide leadership in addressing environmental management issues across the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem. Originating in 2001, the Partnership includes federal, state, provincial agencies, universities, tribes and First Nations managers from Alberta, British Columbia and Montana. Given that no single agency has the mandate or resources to focus on the entire region, the CMP seeks to demonstrate a common, collective institutional capacity to effectively manage for environmental sustainability and address shared resource issues on an ecologically diverse, transboundary large landscape. The poster highlights key experiences of the agency and the science-based CMP including our strategic engagement with other initiatives to ‘scale-up’ and ‘reach out’ in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem. The poster highlights our Strategic Plan and six regional-scale indicators of Ecological Integrity; Landscapes, Water quantity and quality, Biodiversity, Invasive species, Air quality and Climate. Progress on three indicators - aquatic invasive species, landscape and climate change adaptation - is described to to illustrate how the connections are being made. The CMP aims to deliver science and information products to an international network of managers to achieve coordinated management action across an 18-million acre ecosystem encompassing portions of British Columbia, Alberta and Montana.