Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm

Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm

by Steven Apfelbaum
Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm

Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm

by Steven Apfelbaum

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Overview

Renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it does otherwise."

Few have taken Leopold's vision more to heart than Steven I. Apfelbaum, who has, over the last thirty years, transformed his eighty-acre Stone Prairie Farm in Wisconsin into a biologically diverse ecosystem of prairie, wetland, spring-fed brook, and savanna. In healing his land, Apfelbaum demonstrates how humans might play a starring role in healing the planet.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807085967
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 02/01/2010
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Steven I. Apfelbaum is founder, president, and senior ecologist of the firm Applied Ecological Services, known for its international science-based ecological design and restoration work. He lives in Juda, Wisconsin, on Stone Prairie Farm.

Table of Contents

Foreword Nina Leopold Bradley v

Introduction A Place for Land ix

Part I Focus and Intentions

Chapter 1 A Place to Settle 3

Chapter 2 Ancient Landforms and Modern Inhabitants 13

Chapter 3 Jump-Starting Land Restoration 28

Chapter 4 Formative Ideas and Understandings 42

Part II What Really Matters

Chapter 5 The Past Revisits and the Future Begins 61

Chapter 6 Taming the Old House 82

Chapter 7 Planting the Seeds of Restoration 96

Chapter 8 The Doctor Is In-Symptoms of Ecological Health 108

Chapter 9 Playing with Fire 120

Chapter 10 Getting to Know Your Neighbors 135

Chapter 11 Globally Connected 147

Part III Preparing for the Future

Chapter 12 Gone 157

Chapter 13 Exotic and Invasive Species 169

Chapter 14 The Invading Humans 184

Chapter 15 Ecological Reserves 197

Chapter 16 A Healthy Earth Ethic 211

Conclusion Land Community Membership 219

Afterword Lively Seasons on the Restored Stone Prairie Farm 222

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