Skykomish Bio-Cultural Restoration Field Station

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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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.

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.

• Skykomish Logistics Sheet - used to inform participants, describing the location and situation.
• File:Ecosystem guild handbook DRAFT.pdf - a conceptual document describing our working social-cultural framework.
• File:SnoCD volunteer registration.pdf - the form by which each participant becomes an SCD sponsor.
• Field Station Invitation Page - the description of the program with a link to the signup form
• Registration Form (PDF) - a google form used to signup for field station participation.
• The Ecosystem Guild/Site Steward Apprenticeship describes the various roles played by a site steward at a field station

Site Resources

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

• File:Skykomish field station map set.pdf - provides landscape and site sheets

Lower Skykomish Floodplain Landscape

• LANDSCAPE - The the Skykomish field station is in the Lower Skykomish Floodplain

• REINER FARM SITE - Site documentation can be found at the Reiner Farm page.
• PATCHES UNDER MANAGMENT - we are still mapping management areas and are tracking conditions on a shifting set of units.

Other Efforts of the Field Station

A field station may have other experiments and topics, and on obvious focus for Skykomish is Knotweed control:

• Knotweed Control Experiments - initial research and experimentation with shading and harvest for mulch for root starvation.
• A NOAA/SCD VetCorps position supports the field station in development of Regenerative Riverscape Agroforestry - File:VetCorps position 2023.pdf describes the last recruitment.

Field Station Gallery

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

• File:Skykomish Field Station Slides.pptx