Banff National Park has the potential for large-scale connectivity. However, conservation of the area depends on the resolution of problems arising from the historical development of the park. The study area for this project, centered in the town of Banff, represents a conflict zone between human use and valued ecosystem components in the park. This project would provide a scientific basis for the modification of human use in the area through an assessment of the relative human use capabilities of biophysical parameters. It would consider ‘Ground Cover Index’ and ‘Habitat Effectiveness’, respectively, as the standard indicators of local and regional ecosystems, using 20 key independent indicators of GCI. The study area has been divided into a total of 715 homogeneous units that are distributed over the study area and form a total, 36532 units. One hundred and ninety-one sampling units have been randomly selected from these populations that include 54 homogeneous units. Attribute data are collected for each sampling unit. The data was analyzed using multiple regression
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