Ecological restoration is an attempt to reset the ecological clock and return a damaged ecosystem to its predisturbance state—to turn a disused farm into a prairie or to convert a parcel of low-lying acreage into a vigorous wetland. Precise...

Although humans have probably tried to repair ecological damage and improve their local environment for as long as we have recognized the effects of careless use of our natural resources, restoration ecology is a relatively new field that attempts to...

Ecological restoration (hereafter restoration) is "the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been damaged, degraded or destroyed" (Society for Ecological Restoration Science & Policy Working Group). Restoration...

Restoration ecology is the study of renewing a degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystem through active human intervention. Restoration ecology specifically refers to the scientific study that has evolved as recently as the 1980s. Land managers,...

In Federal land management, ecological restoration has emerged in recent years as an alternative to the intensive management for commercial resource extraction widely practiced following World War II and the passive management-"letting Nature heal herself-espoused by some environmental groups. Growing interest in ecological restoration...

Ecological Restoration David Egan, ed. $37/year (four issues), University of Wisconsin Press 2537 Daniels Street, Madison, WI 53718. Included with membership ($67) in the Society for Ecological Restoration, 1955 West Grant Road, Tucson, AZ 85745 520/622-5485, www.ser.org Since it's as true now...