1. Athabasca, January 29, 2010 Prepared for Athabasca Watershed Council (AWC) and Tawatinaw Watershed Stewards (TWS) By Janice Pitman

2. … conservation over the coming decades will require unprecedented cooperation and partnership among governments, private sector and non-government organizations, and individual citizens. Consequently, the greatest challenge we and other members of the conservation community face is the need to form new and interdependent relationships, sharing integrated capacities, building on common strengths, identifying and addressing weaknesses, and focusing our responses on shared goals and objectives. - US Fish and Wildlife Service, Rising to the Challenge, Strategic Plan for Responding to Accelerating Climate Change , September 2010