Lynx, grizzly bear and salmon could be the winners in
a new plan to link the current patchwork of parks, national forests
and recreation areas in Washington’s North Cascades. Along with the
National Park Service, groups like The Wilderness Society, the
National Parks and Conservation Association and the Canadian
Earthcare Society will host a three-day conference, Nature Has No
Borders, to push the plan closer to reality. Biologists and
conservationists will meet with officials such as John Reynolds,
deputy director of the Park Service, Rep. Bruce Vento, D-Minn.,
Canadian park managers, and the chief of the Cascades N’Laka Pamux
Nation. They hope to design a proposal that could end agency and
international divisions within the North Cascades. The conference
costs $175 per person and takes place March 25-27 at the University
of Washington’s Architecture Hall in Seattle. For information,
write Nature Has No Borders, c/o University of Washington
Extension, 5001 25th Ave. N.E., GH-21, Seattle, WA 98195
(206/543-6269).
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Hammering out “ecosystem management’.
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