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I am the Director of Restoration Ecology at the Wilds.
Restoration Ecology is a process of repairing damage caused by natural or anthropogenic forces to the diversity and dynamics of indigenous ecosystems. Going back to the Greek root word, Oikos, which means home, ecological restoration simply is putting the ‘home’ back together again. Strictly speaking, ‘restoration’ implies bringing an ecological system back to its original or former state. This, however, can be very difficult in cases where the landscape has been drastically altered.
Projects Listing | Complete Info - Prairie Creation
- Butterfly Habitat Restoration
- Grassland Bird Habitat Improvement
- Herpetofaunal Surveys and Monitoring
- Small mammal surveys
- American Elm Trials
- Invasive Non-indigenous Plants
- Bison and Non-toxic Endophyte-infected Fescue
- Forest Remnant Ecology
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| DISSERTATION INFORMATION |
Genetic variation among remnant Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii) populations and their association with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; implications for prairie restoration and establishment.
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"Our intelligence, however prodigious we like to think it, is trivial compared to the accumulated wisdom of the hundred million species that make up the Earth's biosphere. Since each microbe, animal, and plant possesses some minute portion of the know-how that makes the whole earth work, the loss of any species erases some portion of organic intelligence, and leaves the land more stupid." (Sara Stein)
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