These management plans are the key tools to meet the challenges of these special places. They are a blueprint for action and they ensure public involvement and science are integrated into the decision making process. Parks Canada is making firm commitments to incorporate environmentally sound practices in its own operations and encouraging others to do the same. Maintaining ecological integrity is the cornerstone of the these national parks and the key to their future health. National parks will continue to be a place for people to visit, to experience and to learn.
National parks are a place for environmental stewardship.
National Parks are a place for open management, where decisions are open and transparent. The management plans for Jasper, Yoho, Kootenay and Waterton Lakes adhere to the principles and themes of the Government s response to the Ecological Integrity Panel report announced on March 23, 2000.