Realization II: Taking Hold

Abstract

Although the tallgrass prairies of the Midwest would retain the reputation as exemplars of ecocentric restoration they had acquired early on, projects were taking shape on behalf of other kinds of associations in other parts of the country during this period. Indeed, what we find as we look for relevant initiatives in different parts of the United States beginning in the 1960s is a kind of convergent evolution, with practitioners working in a wide range of systems and under a wide variety of ecological, institutional, professional, social, and economic conditions, moving more or less independently toward the idea of ecocentric restoration.