BASIN protects, restores, and stewards nature and ecosystems in perpetuity.

The BASIN Field Manual is the central reference to all that is BASIN. It is our expression of the intertwined, entangled relational value of the ecological systems we inhabit. Herein lies what we hope will be a compass, or at least a map, for the path ahead.

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Two Rules

If BASIN had two rules they would be:

Embrace Complexity

Complex is not the same as complicated. Biodiversity, climate, carbon, water, nature, and beyond — economics, finance, politics, law, art, health, wealth, and well-being — are all interconnected.

Stocks & Flows

Ecological economics and ecosystem accounting are based on the principles of stocks and flows. This aptly mirrors nature's basins that store and circulate life-sustaining water. BASIN's model is crafted on this very essence— protecting and stewarding the stocks and flows of Nature's Intrinsic Value.

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“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

-John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911