The Ecosystem Guild
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.
Relationships
- broader: conservation lands;commons
- broader: vegetation
- located in: washington
- related to: :file:ecosystem guild handbook draft.pdf
- related to: the ecosystem guildsite steward apprenticeship
- related to: welcome to salish sea restoration