Conclusion: A Country That Belongs in No Country

The conclusion considers prospects for liberatory environmental politics. After reviewing the book’s main arguments and findings, it considers emerging moments of a sounded North Coast—including the formation of new scientific research networks and the cultivation of multigenerational forms of cross-community place attachment. It considers the promise of Indigenous-led rematriations that seek to decolonize the ear. In a related register, it also considers the sounds of old country music, a cultural form with a surprising breadth of appeal to the North Coast, a place where “country belongs in no country,” and perhaps a place where new alliances can be built from the forging of new sensibilities.