Welcome to Salish Sea Restoration

From Salish Sea Wiki
This website is a peer-to-peer learning platform to support the stewardship of our lands and waters. Volunteer editors create and revise various Types of Pages using our Style Guide under a shared Social Contract. Each page is cross-linked and flagged with a system of Categories. We offer what we know. Using this platform anyone can share evidence. We use knowledge to be more effective and efficient in supporting the regeneration of ecosystems. Regardless of which side of the 49th parallel you live, we invite you to join in our effort.


Find your way by clicking on links or read more about The Big Picture...

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The platform is changing! We are mobile-friendly, and the architecture of the site is improving. Contact the Moderator team if you have any questions. Check out our Development Log to see what we are up to.

Beach Nourishment
Is small scale beach nourishment meaningful mitigation? (New cross-agency science synthesis).

Non-natal Nearshore Rearing of Salmon
What happens with baby salmon once they leave the rivers--a new synthesis.

South Puget Sound
Prototype layout for Regional Scale pages, using a region with a collection.

Page Types

We curate five types of pages, each with distinct content:

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Workgroups - organizations and institutions doing work.

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Efforts - the work of workgroups.

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Products - durable outputs of efforts, including documents, graphics, datasets, and websites.

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Places - nested pages describing the regions, catchments and landforms of the Salish Sea.

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Topics - collected evidence on that help us understand subjects.

Why Join Us?

If you are working to restore the Salish Sea ecosystem you depend on topical and place-based knowledge about complex social-ecological systems. Knowledge sharing is collective empowerment. Salish Sea Restoration is our only peer-to-peer platform for open knowledge management created by and for ecosystem professionals.

  • Circulate evidence and place-based knowledge about Places you live and work.
  • Share hard-to-find Products and archive Documents that might otherwise be lost.
  • Organize resources and identify questions about Topics of interest.
  • Map the Efforts of local Workgroups in Places to broaden and connect our networks.

Learn To Contribute
You can contribute information and resources to the platform by learning a few simple skills and getting familiar with our style guide.