Welcome to Salish Sea Restoration: Difference between revisions

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This website helps us work together on ecosystem restoration. We share resources, information and ideas under a shared social contract. A wiki is a collection of interlinked web pages and documents. Any user can create and edit pages and share documents at any time. Our goal is to help other users find and synthesize sources of information. Read more about The Big Picture...

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We work in human systems made of workgroups which use resources to complete efforts either building knowledge of topics or doing work in places. All this effort results in lots of documents.

Explore ecosystem pages:

We live in ecosystems where snow-fed headwaters, and rain-fed lowlands collect into floodplains and then through river deltas to enter the Salish Sea ringed by a mix of beaches, embayments and headlands.

We Invite You to Join Us

Our goal is to empower people as stewards of the Salish Sea ecosystem. We aim to connect scientists, citizens, and public servants.

Scientists and Students

Describe sites where you have specific knowledge or information.
Share your findings on different topics.
Connect with restoration efforts in mutually beneficial ways.

Citizens

Provide local knowledge about the sites and places in which you live.
Identify workgroups that work nearby.
Track down or share documents.

Conservation Professionals

Post documents about topics that might otherwise get lost.
Connect with local workgroups or efforts.
Build shared knowledge about different kinds of ecosystems

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+<big>'''This website helps us work together on ecosystem restoration.  We share resources, information and ideas under a shared [[social contract]].  A wiki is a collection of interlinked web pages and documents.  Any user can create and edit pages and share documents at any time.  Our goal is to help other users find and synthesize sources of information.  Read more about [[The Big Picture]]...</big>
-'''The [[Salish Sea]], including Puget Sound as its southern extent, is a rich maritime ecosystem of global signficance.  The stewardship of this ecosytem is in the hands of the people that live in it.
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+'''''Click Icons to Browse...'''''
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+rect 571 40 720 180 [[Lowland Watersheds]]
+rect 721 90 860 270 [[Floodplains]]
+rect 421 500 570 700 [[Headlands]]
+rect 571 500 720 700 [[Beaches]]
+rect 720 439 860 630 [[Embayments]]
+rect 800 271 920 440 [[River Deltas]]
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+</imagemap>{{corepages}}__NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__<!--{{announcement}}-->{{RecentEdits}}[[File:Delta tree recruitment.JPG|right|320px|border|link=Snohomish Delta|Tree recruitment in Snohomish Delta]]
-This site helps agencies, citizens and scientists share information about restoration of ecosystems--a shared journal that uses the traditions of the scientific method as its [[social contract]].  We connect people to other people working in similar places or on similar issues, and promote coordination and transparency in our research and management efforts.
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+[[File:Wikimission.png|50px|left|link=about the wiki]]
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+<big>'''[[About the wiki|Why a wiki?]]</big>
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+[[File:Introduction.png|50px|left|link=introduction]]
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+<big>'''[[Introduction|How does it work?]]</big>
+|}
+<br>
+[[File:CreateUserAccountButton.PNG|200px|link=https://salishsearestoration.org/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup]]
+<br>
+<br>
+<big><big>'''Explore [[human system]] pages:'''</big></big>
-We invite you to join us.
+We work in [[human systems]] made of [[workgroups]] which use [[resources]] to complete [[efforts]] either building knowledge of [[topics]] or doing work in [[places]].  All this effort results in lots of [[documents]].
-==Our Ecosystems Framework==
+<big><big>'''Explore [[ecosystem]] pages:'''</big></big>
-[[file:LandscapeDiagram.jpg|500px|right|ECOSYSTEM SCHEMATIC--Systems are overlapping and interrelated, creating a network of ecosystems that span the Salish Sea basin]]
-We divide the landscape into seven kinds of systems, each relatively consistent in ther physical dynamics, and how we use them.  The salish sea is a mosaic of these [[:category:site|sites]]:
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-[[file:Headwater_Icon.jpg|40px|link=:category:headwater]] '''[[:category:headwater|Headwaters]]'''
-[[file:Lowland_Watershed_Icon.jpg|40px|link=:category:lowland watershed]] '''[[:category:lowland watershed|Lowland Watersheds]]'''
+We live in [[ecosystems]] where snow-fed [[headwaters]], and rain-fed [[:category:watershed|lowlands]] collect into [[floodplains]] and then through [[river deltas]] to enter [[the Salish Sea]] ringed by a mix of [[beaches]], [[embayments]] and [[headlands]].
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-[[file:Floodplain_Icon.jpg|40px|link=:category:floodplain]] '''[[:category:floodplain|Floodplains]]'''
-[[file:Delta_Icon.jpg|40px|link=:category:river delta]]  '''[[:category:river delta|River Deltas]]'''
+|style="width:50%;vertical-align:top;padding-left:50px;"|
+==We Invite You to Join Us==
+Our goal is to empower people as stewards of the Salish Sea ecosystem.  We aim to connect scientists, citizens, and public servants.
+<br>
+===Scientists and Students===
+*Describe [[sites]] where you have specific knowledge or information.
+*Share your findings on different [[topics]].
+*Connect with restoration [[efforts]] in mutually beneficial ways.
-[[file:Coastal_Inlet_Icon.jpg|40px|link=:category:embayment]]   '''[[:category:embayment|Embayments]]'''
+===Citizens===
+*Provide local knowledge about the [[Sites and Places|sites and places]] in which you live.
+*Identify [[workgroups]] that work nearby.
+*Track down or share [[documents]].
-[[file:Beach_Icon.jpg|40px|link=:category:beach]]  '''[[:category:beach|Beaches]]'''
+===Conservation Professionals===
+*Post [[documents]] about [[topics]] that might otherwise get lost.
+*Connect with local [[workgroups]] or [[efforts]].
+*Build shared knowledge about different kinds of [[ecosystems]]
+<br>
-[[file:Rocky_Icon.jpg|40px|link=:category:rocky]]  '''[[:category:rocky|Rocky Shorelines]]'''
+|}
-</div>
-==Our Human Systems Framework==
-We also wanted to capture the activites and interests of people.  The way people think and organize themselves often transcends ecological place.  We organize ouselves into [[workgroups]] which undertake [[efforts]] using shared [[resources]] often resulting in development of [[documents]], which add to our understanding of [[topics]].  The following page [[categories]] describe this landscape of human knowledge.
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-[[file:Workgroup_Icon.jpg|40px|link=:category:workgroup]]  '''[[:category:workgroup|Workgroups]]'''
-[[file:Effort_Icon.jpg|40px|link=:category:effort]]  '''[[:category:effort|Efforts]]'''
-[[file:Resource_Icon.jpg|40px|link=:category:resource]]  '''[[:category:resource|Resources]]'''
-[[file:Document_Icon.jpg|40px|link=:category:document]]  '''[[:category:document|Documents]]'''
-[[file:Topic_Icon.jpg|40px|link=:category:topic]]  '''[[:category:topic|Topics]]'''
-[[file:Topic_Icon.jpg|40px|link=:category:place]] '''[[:category:place|Places]]'''
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-Our goal is to increase transparent interaction between ecosystem scientists, private citizens, and public servants.  This wiki allows you to  stitch together existing sources, into a coherent whole story, to break down barriers to information movement common to our institutions and busy lives.
-==Scientists engage with the practice of restoration and protection==
-Scientists oftens have very specialized areas of knowledge, only shared among close colleagues.  Ecosystem management both provides the opportunty for on-the-ground experiments (AKA [[adaptive management]]), but also requires interdisciplary understanding of complex systems.  Without the discipline of science, ecosystem management becomes less effective, less efficient, and more focussed on economic and political interests.  Scientists can use this wiki in several ways:
-*'''Identify [[sites]] where you have specific knowledge or information.
-*'''Report your contributions, and encourage students to contribute project work and liturature review that strengthens and synthesizes our understanding of [[systems]] and their [[attributes]].
-*'''Find on-the-ground [[efforts]] that align with your research goals that could benefit from scientific involvement while providing large scale experiments to test ecological postulates.
-==Citizens take ownership of ecosystem stewardship==
-Citizens are the true cornerstone of conservation, but volunteers, advocates and neighbors are working by their bootstraps to develop the networks and strategies for their local situation.  There are many ways that this wiki can help citizens become more effectively engaged:
-*'''Learn about what has been written about your ecosystem [[site]].
-*'''Identify [[workgroups]] that are actively working in your site, or in similar [[systems]] to improve your [[networks]].
-*'''Report on your [[workgroup]] and its [[efforts]] so that others are aware of your stewardship.
-==Professionals share and distribute knowledge and evidence==
-A vast volume of information generated through publically funding work doesn't get shared.  Projects, reports, observations are buried in unpublished "grey literature", or in the memories of agency staff.  When this information doesn't get added to our collective knowledge, we are wasting resources.  Professionals working for various governments or their consultants can both contribute and benefit from the wiki:
-*'''Post [[documents]] that might otherwise be hard to find, either associated with a particular [[site]] or more generally related to [[systems]]
-*'''Identify local [[workgroups]] or [[documents]] at [[sites]] where you find yourself working.
-*'''Contribute to maintaining shared knowledge of [[systems]] and their [[attributes]] fitting to you expertise.