Bioregional mapping is the practice of making a place legible to the people who live in it. It draws on cartography, ecology, hydrology, history, and Indigenous knowledge. It produces maps, but the maps are not the point. The point is the discipline of attention: staying with a place long enough to learn what it is, what it has been, and what it is asking from those who care for it. The chapters below are the working methods.
- 01 / Why Mapping Matters Why bioregionalism begins with maps. Read this chapter →
- 02 / How to Map a Bioregion The practical steps and tools of bioregional mapping. Read this chapter →
- 03 / Indigenous Mapping Mapping practices led by the people of place, on their own terms. Read this chapter →
- 04 / Mapping Workshop Sit with us at the table; we share the methods. Read this chapter →
A map made by people who live somewhere is a different document than a map made by people who do not. The chapters above are how we make the first kind.