ABSTRACT
Individuals should be able to favor environmental protection and restoration without being callous to the needs of the average citizen for a paying job and financial security. A stigma is still attached to applied ecology, and this may inhibit many scientists, particularly those at the beginning of their careers, from undertaking restoration projects because of the negative influence on career advancement of doing any applied work. The first edition of Rehabilitating Damaged Ecosystems did not use the term “restoration” in the title because, at that time, it was difficult to find an example of full ecological restoration. Mainstream science has accepted ecological restoration as a major new developing field. Professional meetings devote sessions to ecological restoration that are often standing room only and invariably well attended. Public and institutional attitudes toward ecological restoration have been altered dramatically. Case histories are probably at least an order of magnitude more abundant than they were just a decade ago.
