Conference Fever Isn't Enough
By John Rieger / On October 7th, 2014
Editor's note: Our Executive Editor Barbara Dean is currently attending the Society for Ecological Restoration's Northwest/Great Basin Joint Regional Conference.
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Island Press Staff Picks - Intelligent Tinkering
By Jason Leppig / On September 27th, 2014
Called to Ecological Restoration
By Biohabitats / On September 10th, 2014
Editor's note: The below is excerpted with permission from a West Virginia University commencement speech given by Keith Bowers, president of Biohabitats. The full speech is well worth a read.
ForewordFriday: The Secret of Successful Restoration Projects
By Meghan Bartels / On August 22nd, 2014
Why and How: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Ecological Restoration
By Jason Leppig / On October 29th, 2013
This guest post if from Teresa Pereira, winner of our Why Restore? video contest
As I settle back into my routine (and coursework) in Philadelphia, I am reflective of the takeaways from the Society for Ecological Restoration's World Conference in Madison.
Temple University Students Win Ecological Restoration Scholarship Contest
By Admin / On October 9th, 2013
Congratulations Teresa Pereira and Taylor Keegan on winning the Island Press and Society for Ecological Restoration Why Restore? video contest! Thank you for taking part in our contest and for your contributions to ecological restoration. Keep up the good work!
#ForewordFriday: Intelligent Tinkering Edition
By Jason Leppig / On September 6th, 2013
To celebrate all the entries in the SER and Island Press student video contest, this week's Foreword Friday selection comes from Robert Cabin's Intelligent Tinkering. If you're unfamiliar with the subject of ecological restoration, this book is a great introduction.
No One Can Stop Leaking Oil
By Admin / On July 30th, 2013
Katie Valentine and Ryan Koronowski of ThinkProgress uncover what oil companies (and snow) have been keeping secret.
A Canadian oil company still hasn’t been able to stop a series leaks from underground wells at a tar sands operation in Cold Lake, Alberta.
Eric Dinerstein on Reed Noss's Forgotten Grasslands of the South
By [node:field_contributor] / On July 29th, 2013
Eric Dinerstein has some very kind words to say about Reed Noss's book: Forgotten Grasslands of the South
Rants from the Hill: Pleistocene rewilding
By Michael Branch / On September 25th, 2012
In a 2006 article [PDF] in The American Naturalist, a small herd of perfectly respectable conservation biologists advocates a bold ecological restoration project they call “Pleistocene Rewilding.” The concept itself is outrageously wild. First of all, “rewilding” is the process of reintroducing species to ecosystems from which they have been extirpated—usually by that big bully, Homo Notsosapiens.