The 2008 conference was a great success and well attended. We had just over 150 folks show up -- a few weather, illness, and travel cancellation summaries made it tricky for about another 15 folks but we were blessed with relatively good (in Prince George) travel weather. In addition to the majority of participants from BC -- we had a good cohort over from Alberta and then a few each from Yukon, NWT, Quebec, Alaska and Montana. Participants came from a broad array of organizations including provincial parks/environment departments, national parks, ngo's, univerisities and colleges and a great complement of folks this year from protected areas related consulting companies. On the budget note we managed to pull together a balanced budget due in large part to the strong help of our sponsors (UNBC ORTM program, UNBC Natural Resource and Environmental Studies Institute, UNBC Northern Studies Program, Tourism Research Innovation Project (VIU), U Vic's OMRN and MPARG groups, BC Parks, Parks Canada, Coast Inn of the North, and Stride and Glide Sports) and a healthy number of conference registrants. Special thanks to our conference volunteers from the steering committee to the student volunteers from BC and Alberta.

 

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