"When you know something is about to go out of existence, it calls out to you. People realize then there is something great to do that no future generation can do, this is do or die, the time when these last little remnants of prairie and savannah are going . . . What's true today for the tall-grass prairie is rapidly going to become true for the planet as a whole.  There will be nothing that survives in a healthy state except what people learn to restore and maintain."—

Stephen Packard
Stephen Packard, a pioneering practitioner and theorist of restoration, addresses the current state and future of the movement.  He is co-editor of The Tailgrass Restoration Handbook for Prairies, Savannas, and Woodlands (Island Press, 1997).

Cosponsored by: The Environment Council, Department of English, Department of Entomology, Department of Ethology, Ecology and Evolution, Department of Geology, Department of Geography, Department of History, Department of Landscape Architecture, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Department of Plant Biology, Illinois Natural History Survey, Grand Prairie Friends, Prairie Grove Volunteers, Urbana Park District