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This wiki was developed in 2011 as an agency university prototype involving NOAA Restoration Center, WDFW and WWU in response to the painfully poor quality of inter-agency knowledge management infrastructure. Even as some agencies have improved their archives, the weaving of knowledge among institutions is still weak, and affected by anti-social institutional behavior. The wiki is a project of the Society for Ecological Restoration, operating under a novel Operating Agreement as a prototype for bioregional knowledge building around ecosystem stewardship. We are actively seeking collaborators.

This site provides free storage and sharing of documents and images, collaborative work spaces, and just enough structure so you can find things again. It is a collection, not an inventory. It is designed to be organic and self-organizing. It is a virtual shared scrapbook that you can edit with text, images, video, and documents. If you subscribe to our social contract and are working on ecosystem restoration, we'd like you to join us.

Our Goals

By engaging and training people to use this forum, we hope to:

What is a Wiki?

A Wiki is shared website. Each user can create and edit pages. Each page has a unique title, and can contain text, images, links to files, or embedded video. Pages are organized into categories. Our pages in this wiki are either about components of our ecosystem (like watersheds), or they are about the organizations, activities and products of our human systems.

Who's Wiki is This?

This site is a project of the Society for Ecological Restoration, in coordination with the SERNW Chapter, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Puget Sound Partnership, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This platform is provided as an open information sharing platform in service to the broad restoration community, and does not reflect the opinion or policy of any agency. A volunteer moderator team administers the site in accordance with a social contract, to which all members adhere. The wiki is managed based on a Operating Agreement through a consent-based coordination circle of active partners. Text content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License. Our primary support has been provided by the Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program to help fulfill its goal of increasing learning through restoration. Our current operating costs run around $2500/year, and we aim to build an endowment to support the wiki into the future.

Not Another Web Gadget!?

There are a wide range of other web-based resources out there. This platform is intended to complement those efforts, by creating a place where we can share, integrate, and interpret different sources of information together. This is a collection, not an inventory. This wiki is a place where you can put information so that you, and others, can find it again, if you notice something is missing, you can exercise your agency to add information. Information transfer is not limited to a particular agenda or opinion. You ability to quickly transfer information is only limited by our social contract, legal constraints, and our ability to sustain modest hosting costs.

A map of ecosystem sites surrounding Port Susan, with deltas in light green, distinct beach systems in gold, intersected by embayments in dark green, with light blue floodplains fed by streams, and dark blue watersheds