Welcome to Salish Sea Restoration

This website is a peer-to-peer learning platform to support the stewardship of our lands and waters. Volunteer editors create and revise Five Types of Pages using our Style Guide under a shared Social Contract. Each page is cross-linked and flagged with a system of Categories. Using this platform anyone can share knowledge about what they know about ecosystem stewardship--the interface between social systems and ecosystems. We use knowledge to be more effective and efficient in supporting the regeneration of ecosystems. Regardless if you are north or south of our international boundary, we invite you to join in our effort.

Find your way by clicking on links or read more about The Big Picture.

Continuous Improvement

The platform is always changing! Try our mobile skin. We now support structured data queries. Sign Up For an Introductory Workshop to learn more! Check out the Development Log and the Development Roadmap among other Technical topics.

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Beach Nourishment
Is small scale beach nourishment meaningful mitigation? (New cross-agency science synthesis).

SER Conference Poster!
Look at our conference poster promoting the platform at the SER North American Conference.

The Style Guide
Check out our evolving guidance for platform contributers--how to edit so that information is easy to find and avoiding unhelpful redundancy.

Page Types

We curate five types of pages, each with distinct content:

Workgroups - organizations and institutions doing work.

Efforts - the work of workgroups.

Products - durable outputs of efforts, including documents, graphics, datasets, and websites.

Places - nested pages describing the regions, catchments and landforms of the Salish Sea.

Topics - collections of evidence on that help us understand areas of knowledge.

Why Join Us?

If you are working to restore the Salish Sea ecosystem you depend on topical and place-based knowledge about complex social-ecological systems. Knowledge sharing is collective empowerment. Salish Sea Restoration is our only peer-to-peer platform for open knowledge management created by and for ecosystem professionals.

• Circulate evidence and place-based knowledge about Places you live and work.
• Share hard-to-find Products and archive Documents that might otherwise be lost.
• Organize resources and identify questions about Topics of interest.
• Map the Efforts of local Workgroups in Places to broaden and connect our networks.

Learn To Contribute
You can contribute information and resources to the platform by learning a few simple skills and getting familiar with our Style Guide.

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Recent Page Edits

1. Reiner Farm
2. Eutrophication
3. Hood Canal Low Oxygen Levels
4. Alliance for a Healthy South Sound
5. Pierce County
6. Grass Lakes Nature Reserve
7. Stream Team
8. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Grade
9. Woods Creek Watershed
10. Whidbey Basin

Newest Pages

1. Eutrophication
2. Alliance for a Healthy South Sound
3. Reiner Farm/Cedar Grove
4. Reiner Farm/Dry Meadow
5. Test

Newest Products

1. Cereghino 2024 High Resolution Aerials for Railroad Camp
2. Cereghino 2023 Reiner Site Assessment Maps
3. Cereghino 2025 Outwash Plains Bioregion
4. Cereghino 2023 DRAFT riverscape agroforestry principles
5. Cereghino 2023 2023 DRAFT Riverscape Agroforestry Principles

Browse High Level Pages:

Academic Institutions  •  Adaptive Management  •  Admiralty Inlet  •  Advocacy  •  Agriculture  •  Anthropogenic Topics  •  Anthropogenic Topics (The Anthropocene)  •  Arts and Crafts  •  Beaches  •  Biodiversity  •  Biology  •  Biota  •  Canadian Federal Agencies  •  Catchment Scale  •  Channel Form  •  Climate  •  Climate Change  •  Comox Coast  •  Conifer Canopy  •  Conservation Districts  •  Conservation Lands  •  Coordination  •  Counties  •  Deciduous Canopy  •  Discovery Islands  •  East Sound  •  Ecosystem Topics  •  Education  •  Eelgrass  •  Effects of River Delta Restoration on Salmon Populations  •  Embayments  •  Federal Agencies  •  Floodplain Restoration  •  Floodplains  •  Flora  •  Forestry  •  Fraser Lowlands  •  Governments  •  Green Infrastructure  •  Gulf Islands  •  Headlands  •  Headwaters  •  Hood Canal  •  Industrial Land Use  •  Integrated Ecosystem Management  •  Land Trusts  •  Landforms  •  Legislation  •  Lessons  •  Local Government  •  Monitoring  •  Municipalities  •  Non-Governmental Organizations  •  Non-Institutional Groups  •  Planning  •  Protection  •  Provincial  •  Public Ports  •  Puget Sound Ecosystem Funding  •  Puget Sound Nearshore Project Sub-basins  •  Qualicum Coast  •  Regional Districts  •  Regions of the Salish Sea  •  Regulation  •  Research  •  Restoration  •  River Delta Restoration and Hydrodynamics  •  River Delta Use By Salmon  •  River Deltas  •  Rural Land Use  •  Salmon Recovery  •  San Juan Islands  •  Sea Level Rise  •  Sites  •  Social Change  •  Socioeconomics  •  South Puget Sound  •  South Vancouver Island  •  Special Purpose Districts  •  Stormwater  •  Strait of Juan de Fuca  •  Sunshine Coast  •  The Megapolis  •  The Private Sector  •  Transportation Networks  •  US Federal Government  •  United States Law  •  Vegetation and Revegetation  •  Water Management  •  Watershed Planning  •  West Sound  •  Whidbey Basin  •  Whidbey Basin Estuary Restoration Monitoring  •  Workgroups Supporting Youth

from computing, a network where information flows without centralized intermediation, but where functions are achieved.

facts or skills acquired by a person through experience or education.

a broadly distributed living process whereby an organism is able to replace lost or damaged parts to maintain function.