The City of Saskatoon (population ~331,000) is the largest city in the province of Saskatchewan. Saskatoon is a commercial, cultural, and educational centre located on Treaty Six Territory and the Traditional Homeland of the Métis. European settlement began in the 1880s. Indigenous people have been living in and travelling through the Saskatoon area for thousands of years.

Saskatoon lies along a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the mixed prairie ecoregion. It is a hub for water, rail, and highway crossings in all directions.

The City of Saskatoon’s interest in natural asset management is three-fold. First, they wish to develop standardized approaches to understanding the ecosystem services that their natural areas provide, identify priority services, and determine the service value and condition of natural assets. Second, the City of Saskatoon wants to assign service levels to natural assets and identify related levels of investment required to achieve service targets. Finally, it would like to incorporate natural assets into financial planning to ensure sufficient funding for the long-term, reliable provision of ecosystem services.