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World geography & transboundary regions hub > Western Hemisphere > North America >
Contents below:
· General information
· Agriculture
· Transboundary pollution
· Alaska-Yukon-British Columbia border region
· Cascadia & Pacific Northwest
· International Lake of the Woods
· Acadia
Subpages:
· Yellowstone to Yukon & “Northern Rockies”
· Appalachia, Appalachian Mountains & Appalachian Trail
Also see:
· Canada-USA migratory bird info at the Regional geography of migratory species page
General information
· A call for a Canada–US agenda to support people and the planet
American Friends of Canadian Land Trusts
Friends of Canadian Wilderness
International Joint Commission (IJC)
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
· Six LCCs cross the Canada-US border
Transboundary Watersheds @ IJC
Agriculture
Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA)
Transboundary pollution
· See also the Transboundary Air Pollution page
US-Canada Air Quality Agreement @ USEPA
Transboundary air @ Environment and Climate Change Canada
Transboundary air pollution @ USEPA
Alaska-Yukon-Britsh Columbia border region
Arctic Refuge @ Alaska Wilderness League
Gwich'in Steering Committee (ourarcticrefuge.org)
International Porcupine Caribou Board
· Does not appear to have a website, but see this Canadian government description.
Northerns Latitudes Partnerships
· “The Northern Latitudes Partnerships include three regional partnerships in Alaska and western Canada.
We work to help communities be culturally, environmentally, and economically secure in a rapidly
changing North and envision a future where northern lands, waters, and ways of life are sustained for
generations.”
Rivers Without Borders: A Transboundary Watershed Alliance
Scholars for Defending the Arctic Refuge
Porcupine Caribou Management Board
• A Canadian intergovernmental group established under the Canadian Porcupine Caribou Management Agreement.
Cascadia & Pacific Northwest
· Also see the Y2Y page, British Columbia at the Canada page and Alaska, Oregon & Washington at
the US States page.
Columbia-Pacific Resource Conservation and Development
Craighead Environmental Research Institute
Pacific Biodiversity Institute
Pacific Northwest Ecosystem Research Consortium
Puget Sound Society for Conservation Biology
Tidepool: News for the Rainforest Coast
Columbia River Basin
Boundary Waters
Conservationists With Common Sense (CWC)
International Lake of the Woods
International Lake of the Woods Control Board @ IJC
Eastern North America
Eastern Wildway @ Wildlands Network
Niagara region
Faking Niagara Falls: A visual history
Frederick Law Olmsted and the Niagara Reservation
International Niagara Peace Park @ UB Regional Institute
International Niagara Peace Park @ Urban Design Project
Niagara River Corridor: An Important Transnational Treasure
· An effort to designate what would be North America's 1st transboundary Ramsar Site.
Algonquin to Adirondacks
Algonquin to Adirondacks Collaborative (A2A)
Algonquin to Adirondacks @ CPAWS Ottawa Valley
Acadia
· “...a visionary partnership working to restore and enhance landscape connections for the benefit
of people and wildlife across the Northern Appalachian/Acadian region of the eastern U.S. and
Canada. Each step of the way, from the Tug Hill Plateau and Adirondack Mountains in New York
across the forests of New England to the Canadian Maritimes, the actions we take in our own
backyards and communities make a difference.”
St. Croix River
St. Croix International Waterway Commission
Coastal Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Maine
Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation
Coastal Conservation Association-Maine (CCA-Maine)
Gulf of Maine Coastal Program @ USFWS
Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Canada-USA
Acadia “refers to regions of The Maritimes with Acadian roots, language, and culture, primarily in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the Magdalen Islands, and Prince Edward Island, as well as in Maine.”
These sections are mostly organized geographically, moving along the Canada-US border from west to east.