Develop Your Restoration Plan
The best plans are those that are easily communicated to others. This is especially important where the restoration is a group effort. The plan should allow others to quickly find the right tables or figures with schedules, roles and responsibilities, mat
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Develop Your Restoration Plan Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hope; but no plans. Peter F. Drucker
The best plans are those that are easily communicated to others. This is especially important where the restoration is a group effort. The plan should allow others to quickly find the right tables or figures with schedules, roles and responsibilities, material lists, and record- keeping forms. Our restoration plans have been evolving away from expository plans to digital and graphic plans, as described in this step. We want to emphasize, however, that this in no way reflects the importance of acquiring all useful background information on your project. We recommend that restoration plans focus on what is essential and necessary to implement the restoration. There is no end to details that might be included if the plan were an academic exercise, but your aim should be to produce a pragmatic plan that makes interpretation as easy as possible. There usually will be background documents and information with useful details. Put them on your library shelf where you can find them as needed, but do not burden the restoration plan with them.
Types of Restoration Plans Expository plans are commonly one to two hundred pages with many attached appendixes. Graphic restoration plans, which we recommend, present virtually the entire plan with tables, aerial photographs, and maps. Everything, including goals and objectives, treatments, methods, and schedules, is configured to fit into tables and integrated maps similar to what you have already prepared. There is a separate page for each topic, with all information needed on that subject condensed into the single page. This makes it quite easy to stay organized and not get overwhelmed by background information and extraneous details. For example, it is very convenient to go to a monitoring page for an ecological unit to get all needed details of the layout, techniques, schedules, and responsibilities for the monitoring work without having to dig through pages of information. Restoration activities are all captured on the maps of each management zone or unit, with tabular instructions on what to do in
S.I. Apfelbaum and A. Haney, The Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land Workbook, The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration, DOI 10.5822/978-1-61091-049-1_5, © 2012 Steven I. Apfelbaum and Alan Haney
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each. The other advantage of a graphic restoration plan is that you can record your work in each unit each day, what was actually accomplished, hours, expenses, and other important records. This can be done either with hard copy or with digital records. Graphic restoration plans facilitate communications. At meetings, you can lay out plan sheets on a table and talk through each one. Others can easily see the geography of the restoration program in the maps and aerial photographs. Graphic plans also are easily converted into work orders for contractors or volunteers, to show them where to go
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