Skykomish Bio-Cultural Restoration Field Station

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Also see The Ecosystem Guild

The Skykomish Bio-cultural Restoration Field Station is a volunteer-driven stewardship program developed by The Ecosystem Guild and supported by Snohomish Conservation District, NOAA Restoration Center and Tulalip Tribes of Washington as a prototype for community-led stewardship of Riverscape Commons in the Salish Sea. Stewards and guests gather and camp on conservation lands in the Lower Skykomish Floodplain to design, install and tend riparian forests, experimenting within a Regenerative Riverscape Agroforestry framework.

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Field Station Model

  • The Host - a landowner or institution provides access to conservation lands
  • Site Stewards - a group of people that represent a group, organize events, and train people to be stewards.
  • Institutional Sponsor - an institution provides liability management (in this case Snohomish Conservation District, with the goal of building expanded capacity at Agroforestry Northwest.
  • Technical Partners - ecosystem stewardship organizations within the landscape benefit from and contribute to the field station.

Key Documents and Pages

The following documents and pages describe and define the Field Station system.

Location Resources

Efforts and documentation are designed within a standard "Landform-Site-Patch framework" (See Landscape Scales.

Map showing stewardship units on the Old Reiner Farm

Field Station Efforts

Field Station Gallery

Each field station adds to photo documentation sheets to a working document. Events are build around an eight-season year.

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