Miistakis Institute for the Rockies

Partner since 2008
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Representative:
» Danah Duke, Executive Director

The Miistakis Institute for the Rockies was founded in 1995 to build bridges between people, their perceptions and their information about this landscape. Miistakis is a non-profit corporation affiliated with the University of Calgary that undertakes and supports pure and applied research about the ecosystems of the Rocky Mountains and surrounding regions.

In 2002, Miistakis developed research programs that reflect core conservation issues in the Crown of the Continent, an internationally significant ecosystem that includes portions of Montana, British Columbia and Alberta. (For more information about the Crown of the Continent, click here.) These programs include:

• Facilitation of ecosystem-based research in the Crown of the Continent
• Transboundary Geospatial Analysis and Research
• Creation of tools to disseminate spatial and biological information to a wide audience.

Miistakis implements these programs through an affiliation with the University of Calgary and in close partnership with federal and provincial/state agencies, landowners, First Nations, conservation organizations and industry.