The Ecosystem Guild
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The purpose of the Ecosystem Guild is to establish and sustain bio-cultural restoration field stations (and field days) and bioregional strongholds. Field Stations are temporary camps where our Guild gathers to study and restore ecosystems and our cultural relationships to place. They typically recur at the same places over time, where incremental efforts enhance ecosystem functions, the habitability of the site, and the skills, knowledge and abilities of participants. Bioregional strongholds are clusters of people who do fieldstations that aim to build local social, economic abd political power to support bioregional regeneration.
The Guild aspires to operate field stations through the collaboration of many independent groups, through shared protocols, while minimizing financial transactions, depending on gifts, reciprocity and our shared purposes on conservation lands through the Salish Sea and surrounding bioregions. Wherever possible, the functions of field stations are self-organized so that field stations and the groups that support them can operate, expand, and reproduce using social and cultural capital and public common-pool infrastructure, rather than depending on government staffing. We build high-functioning and standardized infrastructure that makes it easy for everyone to play a role.
Through this process we may develop an interconnected network of field stations across Puget Sound periodically opening and closing, matching the needs and opportunities of the land. By moving between these sites, anyone can participate in bio-cultural restoration and develop their skills, knowledge and abilities, while restoring biodiversity and hydrology, and living a carbon-positive and earth-enhancing lifestyle.
Important Links[edit]
- https://ecosystemguild.org provides a bunch of information about the genesis of and vision for the Guild.
- The current Ecosystem Guild Handbook describes the field station vision and shared practices.
- Ecosystem Guild Handbook (comment version) is a version of the handbook available for comment.
- Site Steward Handbook is the emerging template for training site stewards. Check out The Ecosystem Guild/Site Steward Apprenticeship for more.
- The Guild is exploring use of Hylo Network as a social space to support site stewards.
- The Guild aims to build on and leverage this Salish Sea Restoration Platform
- Our prototype field station site is the Skykomish Field Station
Places
The Ecosystem Guild organizes around a watershed-scale vision of communities living as stewards of water, biomass and diversity. These pages describe places in the landscape that the guild has established field stations.
Efforts
These pages describe the activities of the Guild, mostly field stations.
Topics and Standards[edit]
These pages describe sections of the Platform of particular interest to the guild where we contribute to shared knowledge
