The Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land Workbook
The Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land Workbook is the first practical guidebook to give restorationists and would-be restorationists with little or no scientific training or background the “how to” information and knowledge they need to plan and im
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A complete list of titles in this series can be found in the back of this book. The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote ecological restoration as a means of sustaining the diversity of life on Earth and reestablishing an ecologically healthy relationship between nature and culture. Since its incorporation in 1988, SER has been promoting the science and practice of ecological restoration around the world through its publications, conferences, and chapters. SER is a rapidly growing community of restoration ecologists and ecological restoration practitioners dedicated to developing science-based restoration practices around the globe. With members in more than fifty countries and all fifty US states, SER is the world’s leading restoration organization. For more information or to become a member, e-mail us at [email protected], or visit our website at www.ser.org.
Steven I. Apfelbaum and Alan Haney With illustrations by Kirsten R. Vinyeta
Washington | Covelo | London
Copyright © 2012 Steven I. Apfelbaum and Alan Haney All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher: Island Press, 1718 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20009 Island Press is a trademark of The Center for Resource Economics. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Apfelbaum, Steven I., 1954– The restoring ecological health to your land workbook / Steven I. Apfelbaum and Alan Haney. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-59726-804-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-59726-804-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Restoration ecology. Apfelbaum, Steven I., Haney, Alan, II. Title. HQ541.15.R45A64 2012 333.71′53—dc23 2011031269 Printed on recycled, acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Keywords: Ecological restoration, land management, adaptive management, ecological resilience, restoration practitioner, invasive species, mapping, soil survey, landscape change, restoration plan, ecological monitoring, financing restoration, budgeting restoration, ecosystem restoration, ecosystem monitoring
contents
preface
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introduction
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Step 1. Inventory and Map Your Land Task 1. Create a Basemap Task 2. Characterize Land Use or Cover Types Task 3. Refine Ecological Units Task 4. Map Current Conditions of Ecological Units Task 5. Review Soil Type Distributions and Assess Seedbanks Task 6. Map Drainage Task 7. Map Locations of Significant Populations of Invasive Species Task 8. Assess and Map Stressors
Step 2. Investigate Historic Conditions Task 9. Complete Historic Conditions Data Form Task 10. Map Soils and Surface Geology Task 11. Understand How Your Land Has Changed
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Step 3. Interpret Landscape Changes
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Task 12. Develop Working Hypotheses Task 13. Map Ecotones and Gradients
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Step 4 Develop Goals and Objectiv
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