ABSTRACT
The case history of Sudbury is a remarkable story of restoration of a severely damaged-landscape near a very large mining and smelting complex in Northern Ontario, Canada. Given enough time, the natural recovery of this landscape was expected. After all, this area has recovered time and time again from natural disasters, including being repeatedly scraped clean by advancing glaciers in past millennium. However, the surprise in this particular story is the scale and nature of human involvement, and the benefits that a community achieved from active participation in environmental restoration.
