Practitioner Posts Restoration News Midwest Blog Throw Back Thursday - from the archives

Throwback Thursday: Creating and Maintaining Sand Islands at Wolf Lake

Originally published in our September 2011 newsletter. By Jon Dittmar, Cardno JFNew Wolf Lake is a 3.2 km² natural lake located on the Indiana/Illinois border near Hammond, Indiana. In pre-settlement days Wolf Lake was part of a vast complex of dunes,...Read More

Practitioner Posts Restoration News Midwest Blog Throw Back Thursday - from the archives

Throwback Thursday: 100 Sites for 100 Years: A Chicago Wildernewss Land Management Research Program

This post was originally posted in our January 2009 newsletter. by Lauren Umek and Liam Heneghan, Institute for Nature and Culture, DePaul University Despite the recognized centrality of ecological knowledge to restoration practice, there is sometimes an unproductive disconnect between the...Read More

Restoration News Midwest Blog Throw Back Thursday - from the archives

Throwback Thursday – THE EFROYMSON RESTORATION AT KANKAKEE SANDS: A LANDSCAPE APPROACH FOR GRASSLAND AND SAVANNA CONSERVATION IN INDIANA

This post was initially published in September 2008. A landscape-scale restoration project is underway in northwestern Indiana to reestablish a semblance of the original habitat mosaic at an appropriate ecological scale. The Indiana Chapter of The Nature Conservancy is attempting...Read More

Restoration News Midwest Blog Throw Back Thursday - from the archives

Throwback Thursday – A RESTORATION CHALLENGE OF A LIFETIME: THE SENECA MEADOWS PROJECT

This post was initially published in December 2012. What is your virtual field of dreams for restoration? To put it more concretely, what have you always wanted in a restoration project? • A client committed to going the extra mile...Read More

Restoration News Midwest Blog Throw Back Thursday - from the archives

Throwback Thursday – LINCOLN MEMORIAL GARDEN – A DESIGNED LANDSCAPE AND RESTORATION

This post was initially published in the SER MWGL newsletter in September 2011. Seventy-five years ago while Lake Springfield was being constructed as a depression-era Work Progress Administration (WPA) project, a local civic leader, Harriet Knudson, asked the City of...Read More

Restoration News Midwest Blog Throw Back Thursday - from the archives

Throwback Thursday – A SHORT NOTE ON THE ETYMOLOGY OF RESTORATION

This post was initially published in the SER MWGL Newsletter in September 2013 In preparation for the upcoming SER 2013 World Conference (www.ser2013.org), I have been thinking about the role of history in restoration practice. Session organizer Paddy Woodworth asked...Read More