Welcome to Salish Sea Restoration

This website is a peer-to-peer learning platform to support the stewardship of our lands and waters. Volunteer editors create and revise five Types of Pages using our Style Guide under a shared Social Contract. Each page is cross-linked and flagged with a system of Categories. Using this platform anyone can share knowledge about what they know about ecosystem stewardship--the interface between social systems and ecosystems. We use knowledge to be more effective and efficient in supporting the regeneration of ecosystems. Regardless if you are north or south of our international boundary, we invite you to join in our effort.

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

Under Construction

The platform is changing! We are mobile-friendly, and the architecture of the site is improving. Sign Up For an Introductory Workshop to learn more about the platform! Check out the Development Log.

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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:

Workgroups - organizations and institutions doing work.

Efforts - the work of workgroups.

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

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

Topics - collections of evidence on that help us understand areas of knowledge.

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.

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Newest Pages

1. Torrent Salamanders
2. Wolverine
3. Western Pond Turtle
4. Changing Categories
5. Bumblebees

Newest Products

1. Cereghino 2024 draft riverscape agroforestry principles
2. FEMA 2023 Flood Risk Mapping Guidance
3. Cereghino 2024 Salish sea platform short intro
4. Islands in the Salish Sea
5. USDA Plants Database

Recent Page Edits

1. Rural Land Use
2. Freshwater Mussels
3. Torrent Salamanders
4. Western Pond Turtle
5. Wolverine

Browse High Level Pages:

Academic Institutions  •  Adaptive Management  •  Admiralty Inlet  •  Advocacy  •  Agriculture  •  Anthropogenic Topics  •  Anthropogenic Topics (The Anthropocene)  •  Arts and Crafts  •  Beneficial Use of Dredge Materials  •  Biodiversity  •  Biota  •  Catchment Scale  •  Climate  •  Comox Coast  •  Conifer Canopy  •  Conservation Using Acquisition  •  Coordination  •  Deciduous Canopy  •  Delta Use By Salmon  •  Discovery Islands  •  East Sound  •  Education  •  Eelgrass  •  Effects of River Delta Restoration on Salmon Populations  •  Flood Hazard Management  •  Floodplain Restoration  •  Flora  •  Forestry  •  Fraser Lowlands  •  Governments  •  Green Infrastructure  •  Gulf Islands  •  Hood Canal  •  Industrial Land Use  •  Integrated Ecosystem Management  •  Land Cover and Development  •  Landforms  •  Legislation  •  Lessons  •  Monitoring  •  Patch Scale  •  Planning  •  Protection  •  Puget Sound Ecosystem Funding  •  Qualicum Coast  •  Regions  •  Regulation  •  Research  •  Restoration  •  River Delta Flood Management and Drainage  •  River Delta Restoration and Hydrodynamics  •  River Deltas  •  Rural Land Use  •  Salmon Recovery  •  San Juan Islands  •  Sea Level Rise  •  Sites  •  Social Change  •  Socioeconomics  •  South Puget Sound  •  South Vancouver Island  •  Stormwater  •  Strait of Juan de Fuca  •  Sunshine Coast  •  The Law  •  Transportation Networks  •  US Federal Agencies  •  US Federal Government  •  Vegetation and Revegetation  •  Water Management  •  Watershed Planning  •  West Sound  •  Whidbey Basin  •  Whidbey Basin Estuary Restoration Monitoring  •  Youth

from computing, a network where information flows without centralized intermediation, but where functions are achieved.

facts or skills acquired by a person through experience or education.

a broadly distributed living process whereby an organism is able to replace lost or damaged parts to maintain function.