Desirable Mountain Futures

We have learned a great deal in these three years of the Canadian Mountain Assessment (CMA). Much was already known but not widely shared across the divides of Indigenous and Western knowledge systems. Some was new learning; not new research, but new insights from working together in a project that spanned time, cultures, and landscapes. We learned that mountains are Homelands. Mountains are unimaginably diverse. Mountains are changing. Mountains are humbling in their vast extents and the scale of cultural knowledge about them. Mountains are boundary zones between peoples, languages, species, and movement, but yet they connect us as well