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Summary
Summary
Landscape Restoration Handbook, a joint publication of the U.S. Golf Association and the Audubon Society of New York State, is a comprehensive guide that demonstrates how to use naturalization as an alternative to more intensive management of the landscape. The book discusses how to obtain the following benefits of natural landscaping or ecological restoration projects:
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Landscape Restoration Handbook, a fabulous resource for applied ecologists, restorationists, and landscape architects, would also be an excellent introduction and source book on restoration ecology for college students. In fact, it would have been quite useful in this reviewer's recent introductory ecology course. Although the book is large (and costly), the actual text is only 102 pages of concise, accurate, timely, and well-researched information on landscape restoration. Seven chapters include principles for maintaining and restoring natural diversity, and principles and practices of natural landscaping and ecological restoration. The authors are well-reputed restorationists, conservation biologists, and ecosystem geographers. They draw their principles and theories from community and landscape ecology as well as conservation biology. The remaining three-fourths of the book is a series of appendixes including descriptions of natural regions and dominant ecological communities, characteristics and techniques for various ecological restoration types, woody and herbaceous plant matrices, nursery sources for native plant materials, restoration resources (e.g., organizations, consultants, etc.), and regulatory considerations. Finally, there is a color fold-out map of natural regions compiled from four primary regional classification sources. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. J. Silbernagel Washington State University
