Words of Others
The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook for Prairies, Savannas and Woodlands, Edited
by Stephen Packard and Cornelia F. Mutel.
Restoration today is similar to battlefield medicine. We learn, by
necessity, from attempts to revive torn and insulated ecosystems.
The discipline profits much from watching the results of extreme measures
taken in these emergency situations. As a result, practical knowledge
is far ahead of hard science. We need as much scientific knowledge
as we can get to inform restoration decisions, but restorationists
must often act with imperfect knowledge if they are to act at all
before the biodiversity they seek to preserve disappears. Thus, restoration
relies on art and intuition as well as on objective knowledge.
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