Paul Cereghino – Public Restoration Planning

Paul Cereghino is an ecologist, designer, bureaucrat, gardener and educator living in Olympia Washington. He combines landscape design/build experience, with advance studies in ecosystem science, and 15 years of work in public restoration program and project development. He currently works as a restoration ecologist for NOAA, manages of the Salish Sea Restoration Wiki, and is experimenting with community-based watershed restoration through the Ecosystem Guild.

4337 Foxhall Drive NE
Olympia
United States

360-464-1123

Website: http://ecosystemguild.org

Social Media: https://salishsearestoration.org

https://stewardshipinstitute.info

Salish Sea Wiki: https://salishsearestoration.org/wiki/About_the_wiki

Workshop(s)

Workshop 1: Ecosystem Guilds – Network Weaving in Social-Ecological Systems

Restoration of watersheds is relatively simple work. But the ability to mobilize communities for landscape restoration is entangled in land access, conflicting visions of reality, constrained resource flows, conflicted human attentions, and the behaviors of complex hierarchical institutions. While we preferentially focus on the ecological work, we can lack a framework or strategies for designing among mainstream flows and sub-cultures amid overlapping hierarchical institutions that control the bulk of our collective resources. This too is an art and science of design that requires that we be humble, observe and interact, and look for patterns of flow and relationship. I shared a framework for assessment and design in catchment scale social-ecological systems. I shared some examples of complex social systems emerging in Puget Sound floodplains in response to climate change and population growth, and more intimate experiments in the Green Cove Creek Watershed cultivating restoration without financial capital, and a vision for nomadic restoration camping in the Salish Sea.