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  1. Half Title Page
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Land Acknowledgement
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Foreword
  7. Executive Summary
    1. Chapter 1. Introduction
    2. Chapter 2. Mountain Environments
    3. Chapter 3. Mountains as Homelands
    4. Chapter 4. Gifts of the Mountains
    5. Chapter 5. Mountains Under Pressure
    6. Chapter 6. Desirable Mountain Futures
  8. Table of Contents
  9. Chapter 1
    1. 1.1 Mountains and Mountain Knowledge in Canada
    2. 1.2 Introducing the Canadian Mountain Assessment
      1. 1.2.1 Project governance
      2. 1.2.2 Visioning
      3. 1.2.3 Methodology
      4. 1.2.4 Review and revision process
      5. 1.2.5 Innovations
      6. 1.2.6 Caveats and limitations
    3. 1.3 Organisation of Assessment
  10. Chapter 2
    1. 2.1 Introduction
    2. 2.2 Origins
      1. 2.2.1 Plate tectonics: The driving mechanism for mountain building
      2. 2.2.2 Ancient orogens of eastern Canada
      3. 2.2.3 Younger orogens of western Canada
      4. 2.2.4 Ice sheet histories, landscape sculpting, and deglaciation
      5. 2.2.5 Gaps and challenges
    3. 2.3 Weather and Climate
      1. 2.3.1 Air temperature
      2. 2.3.2 Precipitation
      3. 2.3.3 Mountain wind systems
      4. 2.3.4 Gaps and challenges
    4. 2.4 Snow, Ice, and Permafrost
      1. 2.4.1 Mountain snow
      2. 2.4.2 Mountain glaciers
      3. 2.4.3 Mountain permafrost
      4. 2.4.4 Gaps and challenges
    5. 2.5 Water
      1. 2.5.1 Mountain flow regimes
      2. 2.5.2 Mountain surface hydrological processes
      3. 2.5.3 Mountain lakes and reservoirs
      4. 2.5.4 Mountain groundwater
      5. 2.5.5 Mountain wetlands
      6. 2.5.6 Mountain water quality
      7. 2.5.7 Hydrological modelling
      8. 2.5.8 Gaps and challenges
    6. 2.6 Mountain Hazards
      1. 2.6.1 Indigenous perspectives on mountain hazards
      2. 2.6.2 Hazard types and frequency
      3. 2.6.3 Gaps and challenges
    7. 2.7 Ecosystems and Biodiversity
      1. 2.7.1 Terrestrial mountain ecosystems
      2. 2.7.2 Landscape management and disturbances
      3. 2.7.3 Mountain biodiversity
      4. 2.7.4 Aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity
      5. 2.7.5 Gaps and challenges
    8. 2.8 Connections between Mountains and Lowland/Coastal Environments
      1. 2.8.1 Upstream movements of air, water, materials, and organisms
      2. 2.8.2 Downstream movements of air, water, materials, and organisms
      3. 2.8.3 Gaps and challenges
    9. 2.9 Conclusions
  11. Chapter 3
    1. 3.1 Introduction
      1. 3.1.1 Homelands and homes
      2. 3.1.2 Conceptual underpinnings
    2. 3.2 Stories of Homelands
      1. 3.2.1 Stories of creation
      2. 3.2.2 Stories of mountain spirits 
      3. 3.2.3 Mountain place names
      4. 3.2.4 Summary: Stories of Homelands
    3. 3.3 Mountain Archaeology and the Longevity of Homelands
    4. 3.4 Multispecies Literature
      1. 3.4.1 Human-animal relationships in mountains
      2. 3.4.2 Human-plant relationships in mountains
    5. 3.5 Changes to Mountain Homelands
      1. 3.5.1 Early colonial presence
      2. 3.5.2 Science as colonial tool
      3. 3.5.3 Treaties and land access
      4. 3.5.4 Parks and protected areas
    6. 3.6 Recreation
      1. 3.6.1 Place-making through recreation
      2. 3.6.2 Recreation and gender
      3. 3.6.3 Race and recreation
    7. 3.7 Labour
      1. 3.7.1 Extraction labour
      2. 3.7.2 Incarcerated labour in mountains
      3. 3.7.3 Military labour
      4. 3.7.4 Built infrastructures
      5. 3.7.5 Mountain professionals
    8. 3.8 Governance in Contemporary Mountain Spaces
      1. 3.8.1 Mountains as borderlands
      2. 3.8.2 Indigenous governance in mountain places
    9. 3.9 Conclusion
  12. Chapter 4
    1. 4.1 Introduction
      1. 4.1.1 Gifts and benefits
    2. 4.2 Gifts of Identity and Wellbeing
      1. 4.2.1 Emotional and physical wellbeing of mountain communities
    3. 4.3 Gifts of Art
      1. 4.3.1 Mountains as sites of creative inspiration and dialogue
      2. 4.3.2 Mountains as sites of art institutions and programs
    4. 4.4 Gifts of Teaching and Pedagogy
      1. 4.4.1 Storytelling and narrative
      2. 4.4.2 Sacredness
      3. 4.4.3 Land-based learning and healing
      4. 4.4.4 Challenges to Indigenous-led teaching and learning in Canada
    5. 4.5 Gifts of Foods and Medicines
      1. 4.5.1 Plants, Fungi, and Medicinal Species
      2. 4.5.2 Wildlife
      3. 4.5.3 Fisheries
    6. 4.6 Gifts of Water
      1. 4.6.1 Gifts of freshwater
      2. 4.6.2 Gifts of wetlands
    7. 4.7 Gift of Mountain Spaces and Terrain for Tourism and Recreation Activities
      1. 4.7.1 Nature and adventure tourism economies
      2. 4.7.2 Challenges and drawbacks of mountain recreation
    8. 4.8 Gifts and Benefits of Forests, Materials, and Energy Sources
      1. 4.8.1 Forests
      2. 4.8.2 Minerals and hydrocarbons
      3. 4.8.3 Sedimentary deposits and quarries
      4. 4.8.4 Metallic mineral deposits
      5. 4.8.5 Fossil fuels deposits
      6. 4.8.6 Renewable energy
    9. 4.9 Conclusions
  13. Chapter 5
    1. 5.1 Introduction
    2. 5.2 Climate Change: Historical Trends and Future Projections
      1. 5.2.1 Historical temperature trends
      2. 5.2.2 Historical precipitation trends
      3. 5.2.3 Caveats and research gaps
      4. 5.2.4 Future climate projections
      5. 5.2.5 Caveats and research gaps
    3. 5.3 Land Cover and Land Use Pressures
      1. 5.3.1 Changes in land cover
      2. 5.3.2 Changes in land use
      3. 5.3.3 Demographic changes
    4. 5.4 Resource Development Pressures
      1. 5.4.1 Resource extraction and development
      2. 5.4.2 Logging pressures
      3. 5.4.3 Mining and fossil fuel pressures
      4. 5.4.4 Invasive species
    5. 5.5 Growing Pressures from Mountain Tourism and Recreation
    6. 5.6 Changes in the Governance of Mountain Spaces
    7. 5.7 Threats and Impacts from a Changing Cryosphere
      1. 5.7.1 Changes in snowpack
      2. 5.7.2 Changes to glaciers
      3. 5.7.3 Changes in permafrost
    8. 5.8 Threats and Impacts from Changing Water Resources
      1. 5.8.1 Changes in water supply
      2. 5.8.2 Water quality
    9. 5.9 Risks and Vulnerability from Changing Mountain Hazards
    10. 5.10 Threats and Impacts on Ecosystems
      1. 5.10.1 Changes in treeline and shrubification
      2. 5.10.2 Changes in stream ecosystems
      3. 5.10.3 Changes in mountain wetlands
      4. 5.10.4 Changes in wildlife, human, and more-than-human relations
    11. 5.11 Impacts on Socio-Cultural Systems
      1. 5.11.1 Threats to Indigenous livelihoods and knowledge systems
      2. 5.11.2 Threats to community health and wellbeing
      3. 5.11.3 Threats to mountain tourism and recreation
    12. 5.12 Adaptation to Changing Pressures
    13. 5.13 Conclusions
  14. Chapter 6
    1. 6.1 Connectivity
    2. 6.2 Elevating Indigenous Knowledges
    3. 6.3 Access and Barriers to Relationships
    4. 6.4 Humility
    5. 6.5 Endings as Beginnings
  15. Appendix I: Contributor Bios
  16. Appendix II: LEARNING CIRCLE Contributions
  17. Appendix III: Map Data

© 2023 Canadian Mountain Assessment

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This book is available in an Open Access digital format published under a CC-BY-NCND 4.0 Creative Commons license. The publisher should be contacted for any commercial use which falls outside the terms of that license.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: The Canadian Mountain Assessment : walking together to enhance understanding of mountains in Canada / Graham McDowell, Madison Stevens, Shawn Marshall, et al.

Names: McDowell, Graham, author. | Stevens, Madison, author. | Marshall, Shawn (Shawn J.), author.

Description: Statement of responsibility from cover. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20230542778 | Canadiana (ebook) 20230542883 | ISBN 9781773855080 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781773855097 (softcover) | ISBN 9781773855103 (Open Access PDF) | ISBN 9781773855110 (PDF) | ISBN 9781773855127 (EPUB)

Subjects: LCSH: Mountains—Canada. | LCSH: Mountain ecology—Canada. | LCSH: Traditional ecological knowledge—Canada.

Classification: LCC QH106 .M332 2023 | DDC 577.5/30971—dc23

The University of Calgary Press acknowledges the support of the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund for our publications. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.

Funder Logos: Alberta government, Government of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts.

The Canadian Mountain Assessment acknowledges support from the Canadian Mountain Network (CMN)—a member of the Networks of Centres of Excellence Canada program—and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Copyediting by Brian Scrivener

Cover image: Storm Mountain and Arethusa Cirque in autumn, Canadian Rockies. Photo courtesy of Paul Zizka, 2020.

Cover design, page design, and typesetting by Garet Markvoort, zijn digital

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