Biocultural Restoration of Riverscape Forests and Wetlands With Agroforestry

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A consortium of regional and local partners will expand a regional model for biocultural restoration. This will include long-term management strategies, tools and capabilities where communities learn to tend their own riparian zone. This “slow restoration” approach will operate in close coordination with our existing “fast restoration” system, to:

  1. Increase community value creation in riverscapes while protecting and restoring riparian biodiversity,
  2. Use community labor and interest to augment government-funded crews,
  3. Produce products in riverscapes that support and enhance the restoration economy,
  4. Increase tribal gathering opportunities consistent with treaty rights and salmon recovery planning,
  5. Attract disinterested landowners to regenerative riverscape models that generate sustainable household value, and
  6. Build toward the “boots on the ground” necessary to implement real adaptation and resilience efforts at landscape scales.