At Miistakis, we envision a world where communities have genuine access to the science and research they need to make choices that promote healthy landscapes. We study the landscape, so we can help people conserve it. And we work to make innovative research accessible to communities and decision-makers. In all cases, our approach is the same: identify the need, define the problem, solve the problem.

The communities we work with can be landowners and their networks, any level of government, visionary corporations, leading edge scientists, environmental NGO’s – anyone in need of science-based support for practical, sustainable, resource management decision-making.

Municipal Conservation Tool Resource

Municipalities in Alberta play a critical role in promoting or impeding ecological conservation through their land use planning decisions. Miistakis proposes to survey Alberta municipalities regarding the conservation issues they face and the tools they use or seek to use in addressing these issues. After delivering that information broadly to the conservation and municipal government communities, Miistakis will then re-tool the presentation of the suite of conservation tools for municipalities we have developed. Using a web-based interface, the focus will be on outlining how these tools can be used to address the conservation issues municipalities are currently facing. This information resource will be actively promoted to all existing municipal conservation information portals (Land Stewardship Centre, AAMDC, ALTA). The result will be Miistakis having a better understanding of the conservation tools municipalities are seeking and how they are seeking to use them, and these tools will be truly accessible to them.

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