The Salish Sea and its drainage basins: Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula around the Strait of Georgia, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound, each watershed a different colour, with Victoria near the centre.

A living atlas of the Salish Sea

Explore the watersheds, communities and ideas shaping this place — and connect with the people doing the work.

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Map © OpenStreetMap contributors, via OpenFreeMap · Watersheds and rivers: HydroSHEDS

Ask Octo, an AI guide to the knowledge gathered here.

Explore the region Places, groups and the relationships between them — a map, a graph, and readable records. Organizing How mapping and commoning support work that is already under way. Exchange How knowledge travels between places, and who decides what to take in. BioFiTry a neighbourhood restoration scenario: offers, needs and commitments on the map. ContributeAdd useful knowledge, ask a question, or help a record become more accurate. Read Learning with a place — the essay behind this site. Knowledge Garden Read and follow the knowledge gathered here — linked notes on the region's places, groups, concepts and projects.

Stewarded by Darren Zal, with an invitation to help it grow. Suggest a place, correct a record, or share what you know. Contributions are reviewed with their sources and context before publication. The local work is with the Victoria landscape group, one of the groups organizing within Regenerate Cascadia, and it is part of the r3.0 Bioregional Knowledge Commoning Community of Practice. Octo, the Atlas and the Knowledge Garden are parts of the same project.

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Occasional notes when something here changes — a new layer in the Atlas, a workshop, a piece of writing.

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