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Ecological Restoration definition

Ecological Restoration has the same meaning as “restore.”
Ecological Restoration means an intentional activity that initiates or accelerates the recovery of an ecosystem with respect to its health, integrity and sustainability.
Ecological Restoration means to protect, enhance, recreate, or remediate functional and healthy plant and animal communities. Ecological restoration is accomplished by implementing a Stewardship Plan for upland, wetland areas, and aquatic resource areas, which include specific remedial and management activities for sustainable maintenance of each of these areas and planting of those varieties of plants that are indigenous to the area.

Examples of Ecological Restoration in a sentence

  • This is a proposal for an Ecological Restoration Limited Project.

  • Skip Section D and complete Appendix A: Ecological Restoration Notice of Intent – Minimum Required Documents (310 CMR 10.12).

  • This followed the completion of a series of studies and the formulation of a project known as the Korle Lagoon Ecological Restoration Project (KLERP), designed to restore this vital marine and river system to a cleaner and more natural ecological state.

  • An Integrated Biophysical Strategy for Ecological Restoration of Large Watersheds.

  • An Ecological Restoration Plan accompanies this SMP and recommends ecological enhancement and restoration measures.

  • Society for Ecological Restoration International, Perth, Australia.

  • Limited Project Type If the proposed activity is eligible to be treated as an Ecological Restoration Limited Project (310 CMR10.24(8), 310 CMR 10.53(4)), complete and attach Appendix A: Ecological Restoration Limited Project Checklist and Signed Certification.

  • Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University: Flagstaff, AZ.

  • Genetic Considerations in Ecological Restoration (Annotated Bibliography).

  • Effective Monitoring to Evaluate Ecological Restoration in the Gulf of Mexico.


More Definitions of Ecological Restoration

Ecological RestorationThe process of assisting the recovery of resilience and adaptive capacity of ecosystems that have been degraded, damaged, or destroyed. Restoration focuses on establishing the composition, structure, pattern, and ecological processes necessary to make terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems sustainable, resilient, and healthy under current and future conditions. – Ecosystem: A spatially explicit, relatively homogeneous unit of the earth that includes all interacting organisms and components of the abiotic environment within its boundaries — note an ecosystem can be of any size, e.g., a log, pond, field, forest, or the earth’s biosphere. For the ACCG the upper scale of nested ecosystems of concern is the whole of the upper Mokelumne River watershed and the lower scale is any size of forest stand, meadow or reach of riparian corridor in or immediately adjacent to the upper Mokelumne River watershed; it is framed to include the natural environment, community and economy.
Ecological Restoration means the practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment by active human intervention and action with the goal of creating a beautiful, resilient and predominantly native habitat in a designed landscape.
Ecological Restoration means an intentional activity that initiates or accelerates the recovery of an ecosystem with respect to its health-integrity and sustainability.
Ecological Restoration means the return of a species, population or ecosystem to its state prior to disturbance;
Ecological Restoration means the reestablishment or upgrading of impaired ecological shoreline processes or functions. This may be accomplished through measures including, but not limited to, revegetation, removal of intrusive shoreline structures and removal or treatment of toxic materials. Restoration does not imply a requirement for returning the shoreline area to aboriginal or pre- European settlement conditions [WAC 173-26-020(27)].
Ecological Restoration means the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged or destroyed (see SER Primer, 20042). It is an intentional human activity that initiates or accelerates the recovery of an ecosystem with respect to its health, integrity and sustainability. Restoration involves returning the impacted ecosystem to a sustainable ecological trajectory or pathway, determined by the restoration target and reference conditions.

Related to Ecological Restoration

  • Geologically hazardous areas means areas that because of their susceptibility to erosion, sliding, earthquake, or other geological events, are not suited to the siting of commercial, residential, or industrial development consistent with public health or safety concerns.

  • Hazardous Waste Management Facility means, as defined in NCGS 130A, Article 9, a facility for the collection, storage, processing, treatment, recycling, recovery, or disposal of hazardous waste.

  • Coastal high hazard area means a Special Flood Hazard Area extending from offshore to the inland limit of a primary frontal dune along an open coast and any other area subject to high velocity wave action from storms or seismic sources. The area is designated on a FIRM, or other adopted flood map as determined in Article 3, Section B of this ordinance, as Zone VE.

  • Hazardous Waste means the substances regulated as such pursuant to any Environmental Law.

  • Generally applicable environmental radiation standards means standards issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, that impose limits on radiation exposures or levels, or concentrations or quantities of radioactive material, in the general environment outside the boundaries of locations under the control of persons possessing or using radioactive material.

  • Pollution prevention means any activity that through process changes, product reformulation or redesign, or substitution of less polluting raw materials, eliminates or reduces the release of air pollutants (including fugitive emissions) and other pollutants to the environment prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal; it does not mean recycling (other than certain “in-process recycling” practices), energy recovery, treatment, or disposal.