To the generous people who have asked, I have fallen behind
on new blog posts because I’m trying something new.
Last fall I was about to “launch” a new blog that was more
“technical” and “specialized” than the Vestal Grove blog. (I’ve tried to keep
Vestal Grove accessible to any person who might be interested in ecosystems.) Then, in quick succession, I had
to bury myself in preparations to do presentations for three major conferences,
and then I started messing with drafts for the new blog. Now I'm about ready to resume both Vestal Grove and the “new
blog.”
Would you be willing to help me think about possible titles
(and goals) for a blog about getting better at ecosystem conservation through stewardship and restoration?
POSSIBLE TITLES
(Perhaps you can improve or have a better
one? Or tell me which ones you like best?)
Prairie Doc
Strategies for Stewardship
Trying to be a Good Steward
Healing Stewards
Better Living for Nature
Biodiversity Builders
Handcrafted Ecosystems
Birth of a Healing Discipline: learning to restore
ecosystems
Battlefield Medicine for the Ecosystem
Restore and Restock: by and for ecosystem stewards
A Time to Heal: idea exchanges of, by, and for ecosystem
stewards
Cut, Sow, Reap, and Burn
Cut, Plant, and Burn
Slash, Seed, Burn, and Ponder
Eco-Resurrection
Rebirth of Ecosystems
States of the Art: Eco-restoration
State of the Ark
Eco-Upgrade: better skills for stewards
Eco-Upgrade: evolving insights in ecological restoration
Blundering Toward Bethlehem
Better Stewards
Eco-medics
Better Eco-medicine
Improving Stewards
Eco-Restoration Practice
Perhaps the brief description could be something like:
“This blog starts with ongoing eco-restoration experiments in
northeastern Illinois and invites participation by everyone interested –
especially people participating in this very new healing profession or discipline.”
Or might you suggest something better?
5 comments:
The statement “more technical and specialized” to me means you are hoping to attract active practitioners and maybe academia that focuses on research to improve ecological restoration. Ecological restoration is a big field so narrowing it down to the eastern tallgrass prairie complex (prairies, savannas and oak woodlands) might be prudent. It would be good to have a title that reveals the blog’s mission but is not overly long in words. I’ll add another one to your list – Tallgrass Prairie Complex Practitioners Exchange. I am happy with any of the titles you proposed. I am looking forward to the blog as most “ecological restoration” blogs today are very light on material to advance ecological restoration practices and heavy on pictures/general info.
David
David,
Very helpful comment.
It's my hope, as you suggest, that it would be useful to people doing restoration for biodiversity conservation.
Thank you.
S.
Hello Stephen, great to hear of your new initiative. My favourites from your list are Handcrafted Ecosystems, Biodiversity Builders, Restore and Restock and Strategies for Stewardship, each followed by a short description as suggested by David above. Best wishes for 2014, I hope the new blog goes well, Ian
Thanks, Ian.
It's always a pleasure and an honor to get the wise counsel of Ian Lunt who researches and writes a spirited and insightful blog on southern Australian ecosystems. You can find it at http://ianluntecology.com
While I'm at it, thanks also to the many good people who offered comments off line.
A fun list! Two addition popped to mind...Triage for Trees, or Tree Triage...
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