Biocultural Restoration Field Station - Camp Skykomish

We have set dates for the 2025 Skykomish Field Stations and we are having a winter camp on February 21-23!
Do you like to spend time outside working with plants and soils and learning about ecosystems? Are you interested in the stewardship of our commons? Would you like to meet like minded people through practical collaboration? Please join us.

Our field stations are dispersed camps on the Skykomish River, where we study ecosystems, restoration, and agroforestry. This late winter camp will revolve around plant propagation, staying warm, and preparing for future field stations. The campsite is within a 100-acre tribally-owned river forest, where we are assessing and tending multiple sites and working closely with tribal crews to restore biodiversity and increase the cultural value of these ecologically important areas. We aim to develop a stewardship system where any person can develop the relationships and skills to become a biocultural steward of conservation lands throughout the Salish Sea, and part of a network of stewards.

The current site steward, Paul Cereghino has 35 years of experience in Salish Sea conservation, with a practical background in landscape construction, field ecology and environmental horticulture, and professional work in cartography, regional restoration planning, river ecology, and salmon recovery. Representatives from the Snohomish Conservation District are our hosts. Teaching and learning are student-directed, organic and often embodied. Participation is free in exchange for around four hours a day of your labor, tailored to your abilities.

Field Stations attract a unique and interesting crowd for learning and networking, and the relaxed pace allows for the exploration of a range of practical and conceptual topics about the stewardship of our bioregion. Inhabiting a restoration site allows for a deeper connection with the place and deeper conversations about the meaning of ecological restoration in context. We hope you will join us.

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Hey, great to see this gathering momentum Paul!

Very much hope to make it along for one or more occasion this year; and perhaps similar initiative down this way. Keep up the great work and reporting thereof~