The North American Summit on Collaborating with Wildlife in Park Gateways (CW Summit) is a
place where practitioners from multiple sectors work together on best practices for meeting wildlife basic needs as park gateway areas quickly develop and experience increasing visitation and use by humans. Sharing their own actively implemented and conceptual Models and Methodologies (M&Ms) for “collaborating with wildlife” in themed Workgroups, Summit participants learn how they can improve their practices and discover replicable or customizable features of the practices of others. Facilitated Workgroup Dialogues challenge practitioners to acknowledge what’s missing and conceptualize innovations that will be needed to meet wildlife needs. The interaction in Workgroups sparks new partnerships and resources for broader deployment of best practices. The Summit e-Workbook compiles individual best practices for comparative purposes and out of the Summit delivers a re-take that consolidates Workgroup results and can be used for further networking and technical training, and M&Ms replication.