EVSC 100 Lecture Notes - Quercus Garryana, Chum Salmon, Saturna Island

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Environmental Science
• Course: EVSC 100
• Professor: Tommy Rodgen

Document Summary

Ecological restoration offers a way to restore ecologic, economic, and social health of ecosystems for present and future generations. Ecological restoration assists the recovery of degraded ecosystems, with effective planning, monitoring and evaluation. Your plan must include rationale (science, uncertainty, and personal/cultural values). Also, question if the reference or historical status or baseline or. Natural status needs to be restored, or does a new status needs to be made. You also need to integrate the rest of the landscape and think of long-term management of the degraded system. Your monitoring and evaluation of the plan should treat the symptoms, and also attack underlying causes of the ecosystem health decline. A long-term solution is ultimately restoration of ecosystem health, where it regains its integrity. For example, the garry oak ecosystem covered in lecture is a system that is being preserved. Another example would be the restorations of kennedy flats watershed on vancouver island for endangered fish and their habitat.