Ecological Restoration  

Ecological Restoration

Volume 22 Number 1 March 2004

Editorial

Looking for the Ethical Restorationist by Dave Egan

Society for Ecological Restoration International Column

Notes from British Columbia by Eric Higgs

News

Healthy Forests Bill Passes Congress; Signed by President Bush

Leopold Restoration Awards Recognize Wisconsin Leaders in Ecological Restoration

Floodgates Opened; Re-flooding of Marshes in Southeastern Iraq Begins

Interior Secretary Norton Approves Healthy Forest Pilot Projects

Articles

A Restoration Success: Longleaf Pine Seedlings Established in Fire-Suppressed, Old-Growth Stand by John S. Kush, Ralph S. Meldahl and Chadwick Avery

South Texas Tamaulipan Thornscrub Restoration Experiment Measures Growth of Planted Woody Species by Kern Ewing and Chris Best

Restoring Biodiversity to Pinon-Juniper Woodlands by Steven Albert, Nelson Luna, Roger Jensen and Larry Livingston

Subalpine Meadow Restoration in Yosemite National Park by Sean Eagan, Peter Newman, Sue Fritzke and Louise Johnson

Wetland Restoration of an Exploratory Well on Alaska's North Slope: A Learning Experience by Janet G. Kidd, Bill Streever, and Michael R. Joyce and Lloyd H. Fanter

Festival Fire by Colette R. Palamar, Ph.D.

 

Notes

Early to Midsummer Prairie Plantings Produce Splendid Results: A 25-Year Study (Wisconsin) by J.A. Schwarzmeier

Long-Term Data on Effectiveness of Treatments to Regenerate Atlantic White-Cedar on Small Sites (New Jersey) by George Zimmerman and Kristin Mylecraine

Few Native Species Colonize on Mudflats Ten Years After Dam Removal (Wisconsin) by Taly Dawn Drezner

Great Lakes Clams Find Refuge from Zebra Mussels in Restored, Lake-Connected Marsh (Ohio) by S. Jerrine Nichols and Douglas A. Wilcox

Initial Ecosystem Response of Salt Marshes to Ditch Plugging and Pool Creation (Maine) by Susan Adamowicz, Charles Roman, Graham Taylor, Kate O'Brien and Mary-Jane James-Pirri

Thin-Layer Spraying Technique Restores Tidal Marsh Elevations in Demonstration Project (Maryland) by Steven Kopecky

Monitoring Salt Marsh Response to Open Marsh Water Management by Mary-Jane James-Pirri, R. Michael Erwin, Diann J. Prosser and Janith Taylor

Indicator Species and Time Series Images Reveal Progress of Dune Habitat Restoration (California) by Cameron Barrows

Management for the Whole: Livestock Grazing Approach Brings New Life to Arid Rangelands (Nevada) by Tony Tipton and Jerrie Tipton

Table Sugar Shows Promise for Controlling Reed Canarygrass (Illinois) by Kathleen M. Paap and Dennis W. Nyberg

Restoring Open Meadow Habitat for Rare Nabokov's Blue Butterfly (Minnesota) by Robin S. Vora and Robert Dana

Agreement with Landowner Serves as Model for Recovering the Endangered Houston Toad (Texas) by David W. Wolfe and Michele Amador

Growing Solutions Integrates Education and Watershed Restoration (California) by Karen Flagg and Stephanie Langsdorf

Seed Bomb Project Blends Art, Restoration, and Community Activism (California) by Kathyrn A. Miller

New Zealand's Border Protection Quarantine and Surveillance: A Potential Model for Hawai'i by Lloyd Loope

 

Book Reviews

Community Forestry in the United States: Learning from the Past, Crafting the Future Mark Baker and Jonathan Kusel 2003. Washington, DC: Island Press. Cloth, $50, ISBN: 1-55963-983-0. Paper, $25, ISBN: 1-55963-984-9. 264 pages. Review by Gigi La Budde

A Natural History of the Chicago Region Joel Greenberg. 2002. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Cloth, $40. ISBN: 0-22630-648-8. 592 pages. Review by Stephen Packard

Restoration of Puget Sound Rivers David R. Montgomery, Susan Bolton, Derek B. Booth and Leslie Wall, editors. 2003. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Paper, $30. ISBN: 0-295-98295-0. 512 pages. Review by David Chapin

Restoration of the Great Lakes: Promises, Practices, and Performances Mark Sproule-Jones. 2002. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Cloth, $75. ISBN: 07748-0870-5. Paper, $29.95. ISBN: 07748-0871-3. 149 pages. Review by Karen Rodriguez