Yoho National Park of Canada

Management Plan

11.0 Summary of the Environmental Assessment

Canadian Pacific Railway and tunnel at base of Mt. Stephen, Yoho National Park of Canada © Parks Canada/YNP 18(27)/1979

The following summarizes the highlights of a separate report "Environmental Assessment of the Yoho National Park of Canada Management Plan 2000".

11.1 Summary of the Environmental Assessment

The environmental assessment was prepared to ensure the cumulative effects of policies, programs, and proposed actions are understood, and do not contradict the mandate of the National Parks Act or ecological integrity.

Settlement, development, transportation and tourism activities over the past century have stressed the park and the regional ecosystem. The issues of greatest concern are:

• landscape fragmentation and loss of habitat connectivity as a result of  development and human use in the park and surrounding area
• the effects of non-native species, development, and flow regimes on aquatic and riparian systems
• alteration of vegetation succession due to lack of fire and human modification of the landscape
• wildlife habituation and mortality.

< Previous Page  | Table of Contents  | Next Page  >