Description: "This potentially useful book describes how to work with soils, seeds, plants, animals, existing vegetation, machinery, and people so that conservation goals are satisfied. It does not advocate an end to human impacts, but it provides a candid treatment of how derelict lands can be mended with limited time, money, and materials. Although [this book] draws primarily on examples from the United Kingdom, ecologists, environmental consultants, wildlife biologists, landscape architects, and others based in the United States should add this book to their libraries for two reasons. First, it presents some new and interesting twists on landscape planning and design. . . . Second, it frames a philosophy of resource management that is distinct from the prevailing conservation ethic in the United States. In short, US readers will get some fresh perspectives that could potentially work their way into the management of anthropic systems."--BioScience"The authors reinforce important principles and provide good examples of primarily terrestrial site-specific approaches for changing habitat, and pull together recent, and often not widely circulated, literature primarily from the U.K. These contributions will be welcome to practitioners and promoters of habitat creation and conservation." - The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2000

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