The financial support of the Ivey, Pew and Hewlett Foundations, the Nature Conservancy, and FPAC were es- sential to the negotiation and implementation of the agreement. [...] These include but are not limited to: 1. a refinement to the definition of “functional habitat”; more guidance on the issue of disturbance configuration; and elaboration on re-occupancy of disturbed habitat; 2. workshop(s) on the application of the disturbance threshold and zonation approach at the range-level; and 3. a framework for nationally coordinated active adaptive management of caribou act [...] We are recommending a workshop be held in the near future to support the integration process and to inform the finalization and publication of this CBFA planning framework. [...] For example, will the caribou action plan be designed as a stand-alone product, sufficient to meet the needs of caribou in the absence of any action on Goal 2? Or, will the caribou action plan assume that caribou needs will only be met once Goal 2 is planned for, and protected areas are added to a suite of caribou management actions? [...] The choice should be: • made within the context of the CBFA to ensure the objectives are achieved as quickly as possible; • informed by the best available information on short- to mid-term ecological and socio-economic impacts; • made by the signatories to the CBFA, not by the ISAT, in the context of developing CBFA products, and by governments in the context of implementing final decisions; • mad