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13Ecological Restoration: Conservation’s Ideal Partner

Restoration conferences and fairs proliferate now. Practitioners write essays on restoration as theater, on restoration theory, on restoration aesthetics, politics, ritual. Where once we had just one model—the University of Wisconsin Arboretum and the Leopold farm—now we have models everywhere.…From the beginning there have been preservationists who have argued that restoration is premature. All available resources, they believe, should be devoted first to the preservation of authenticity of wilderness and restoration can wait till later. Later has arrived.In the history of the environmental movement, the century or two of the Preservation Era will prove to be prologue: an introductory ...