ABSTRACT
Introduction In 1994 the Ministry of Canadian Heritage convened the Banff-Bow Valley Task Force to assess the use and development of the Bow River watershed within Banff National Park (Alberta, Canada).* The two-year, $2 million Banff-Bow Valley Study identified ways to “integrate environmental, social and economic considerations in order to develop management and land-use strategies that are sustainable and meet the objectives of the National Parks Act” (Banff-Bow Valley Study 1996, p. 2).
