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Help Grow Our Profession
We wrote this topic for you—whether you are an ecological restoration practitioner (new to the
field or not), a motivated volunteer, or a student looking for a career—in the hope that you will be
able to learn from our experiences. Now it is your turn to help us grow the profession of ecological
restoration. Here are some suggestions on how you can help:
• Stay informed by joining one or more professional societies that promote ecological
restoration.
• Become active in the operation of one of these organizations by serving as a board or
committee member, a conference organizer or symposium chair, and so forth.
• Present papers and posters on your restoration work at conferences dealing with ecological
restoration.
• Conduct field tours of your restoration project sites.
• Submit articles to organization and chapter newsletters describing lessons learned from
your project activities.
• Prepare and publish case studies of your restoration projects.
• Use a variety of communications media to educate the public about the benefits of your
restoration project work.
Go Forth and Heal the Earth
We wish you success in your future work as you grow in your chosen profession of ecological res-
toration. Remember, although you are restoring one project site at a time, you are contributing to
the bigger picture of restoring our world's degraded, damaged, and destroyed ecosystems for the
purpose of restoring ecosystem health and biodiversity, restoring ecosystem goods and services,
creating sustainable livelihoods, and mitigating the effects of climate change.