Regenerative Riverscape Agroforestry Design Charrettes

Efforts

Efforts describe the work of workgroups

Involved Workgroups:

• Knowledge Creation
  • Adaptive Management
  • Arts and Crafts
  • Lessons
  • Monitoring
  • Research
• Protection
  • Acquisition
  • Green Infrastructure
  • Regulation
• Restoration
  • Beach Nourishment
  • Engineered Log Jams
  • Fish Passage
  • Revegetation
• Social Change
  • Advocacy
  • Coordination
  • Education
  • Funding
  • Integrated Ecosystem Management
  • Legislation
  • Planning

Effort References

• RCO's PRISM Project Search
• Salmon Recovery Portal
• Ecology's Administration of Grants and Loans
• USACE Regulatory In-lieu Fee and Bank information Tracking System

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To support the Skykomish Bio-Cultural Restoration Field Station, NOAA, Snohomish Conservation District, The Ecosystem Guild and other partners began hosting day-long workshops on the Reiner Farm. "Regenerative riverscape agroforestry" is a term-of-art for the science and craft of regenerating complex native vegetation that restores biodiversity and ecosystem functions, while generating a useful harvest for households. This involves the application of agroforestry (and of particular interest, strategies like Syntropic Agroforestry) to the restoration of Riparian Buffer Functions. It aims ot develop biodiverse Vegetation that employs humans as a beneficial Vegetation Processes. These practices require cultural sophistication, discipline, and learning once common in Tribal communities before settlement and settler degradation of tribally managed ecosystems. Our goal is to create opportunities for local communities to be proactive and empowered in the restoration and tending vegetation in Riverscapes, while building a community of practice among restoration practitioners, foresters, agroforesters and wildcrafters.

Charrette = A collaborative planning or design session often involving interested third parties, in which problems relating to a proposed design project are discussed and solutions adopted in a limited time frame.

2023 Charrette Notes

The 2023 charette is described in Cereghino et al 2024 below. We spent one day visiting three sites on the Reiner Farm

• Cereghino 2023 DRAFT riverscape agroforestry principles - draft for discussion description of riparian restoration as part of a "riverscape agroforestry" framework developed for the JUne 23, 2023 Charrette.
• File:Cereghino & Busen 2023 agroforesty charrette assessment package.pdf - an assessment experiment in patch assessment borrowing from Yeomans 1958 the challenge of landscape.
• Cereghino et al 2024 camp skykomish charrette output presents the results from three sites.

2025 Charrette Notes

To support the 2025 event we loaded addition resources on the Reiner Farm page, specifically Cereghino 2023 Reiner Site Assessment Maps and Cereghino 2024 High Resolution Aerials for Railroad Camp. Invitations were extended to Tulalip Tribes,

• The Cereghino 2025 design charette agenda and notes describes the plan of the day, the design assumptions, and provides additional terms and concepts as a way of building a shared vocabulary.

Related Platorm Content

• These events aim to support the Skykomish Bio-Cultural Restoration Field Station and provide opportunites for addition training for Site Stewards in Training
• Syntropic Agroforestry is a tropical system of agroforestry that may provide the most evolved analog, but in a different ecosystem.
• The Working Buffer Pilot Project attempted to describe strategies for management of land near water that more holistically addresses the range of functions that these lands can provide.
• Vegetation and Revegetation is a master topic page that describes design resources available on the wiki.
• Riparian Buffer Function summarizes various regional works on defining buffer functions