Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration Martin Laura J.
Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration Martin Laura J. An environmental historian delves into the history, science, and philosophy of a paradoxical pursuit: the century-old quest to…
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Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration Martin Laura J.
An environmental historian delves into the history, science, and philosophy of a paradoxical pursuit: the century-old quest to design natural places and create wild species.Environmental restoration is a global pursuit and a major political concern. But restoration has not always been so intensively practiced. Governments, nonprofits, private corporations, and other institutions spend billions of dollars each year to remove invasive species, build wetlands, and reintroduce species driven from their habitats.
Diverging from popular ideas about preservation, which romanticized nature as an Eden to be left untouched by human hands, and It began as the pastime of a few wildflower enthusiasts and the first practitioners of the new scientific discipline of ecology.Restoration has been a touchstone of US environmentalism since the beginning of the twentieth century.