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The Million Oyster Playbook.

Written for the people who have to make a restoration project work.

The Playbook brings together guidance on choosing a site, choosing a restoration method, and deciding what to measure after deployment. Its aim is to make field experience easier to share and adapt from one waterway to the next, so each coastal community starts further ahead than the last.

The Million Oyster Playbook in six parts: Water, Oysters, Reefs, Manage, Engage and Impact, each with its own list of topics
The Playbook in six parts: Water, Oysters, Reefs, Manage, Engage and Impact.

Four tracks.

Four tracks: Knowledge, Train, Solution and Promotion
Four tracks: Knowledge, Train, Solution and Promotion.

Grow locally.

Grow locally: empower communities to grow oysters and build reefs. Training in each area, a support network, and standard data measured and shared
Empower communities to grow oysters and build reefs.

One common unit.

One million oysters (M1) gives partners a common unit for planning, funding and reporting. At the planning density of 250 oysters per square meter, a million oysters cover about one acre of reef, a comparison that applies only where oysters are deployed as reefs.

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