Includes bibliographical references

1. A Tale of Two Wildernesses: Jasper National Park, Meet Disney World -- The Bear in the Kitchen -- The Palisade -- A Landscape of Threats -- Freak Landscapes -- Restoring an Idea or a Place? -- Wilderness as Theme -- Colonizing the Imagination -- Celebration? -- One Wilderness or Two? -- 2. Boundary Conditions -- Florid(ian) Images -- Meandering Ambitions: The Kissimmee River (Florida) Restoration -- Beyond the Ecological Curtain: The Morava River Restoration, Slovak Republic -- Gardening or Restoration? The Robert Starbird Dorney Garden, Ontario, Canada -- Normal History -- Contingency and Ideals -- 3. What is Ecological Restoration? -- Words and Taxomony -- The Duck Test -- A Legacy of Definitions -- Process and Product -- Assisted Recovery -- Management -- Historical Range of Variability -- Sustainable Cultural Practices -- Ecological Integrity -- The Evolution of Words and Worlds -- 4. Historicity and Reference in Ecological Restoration -- Photographing the Past -- Nostalgia -- Narrative Continuity -- Place -- Time Depth -- Reference Conditions -- Taking History Seriously -- 5. Denaturing Restoration -- Lines across the Path -- Commodification -- A Taut Line: What Kind of Science Do Ecological Restorationists Require? -- The Commodification of Nature -- The Commodification of Practice -- The Promise and Problems of Ecological Restoration -- 6. Focal Restoration -- Discovery Island -- Ecocultural Restoration -- Focal Restoration -- Ritual and Restoration -- Participation in Restoration -- Landscape Coevolution -- 7. Nature by Design -- Remembrances of Landscapes Past -- The Ambiguity of Design -- Wild Design -- Restoration as Conversation: A Storied Landscape