Restoration
Some areas of the world have already lost 90 percent of their wetlands, including marshes. Often they were drained to create agricultural land, or filled to accommodate urban sprawl. Restoration is the process of returning marshes to the landscape to replace those lost in the past. Restoration can be done on large scales, say, by allowing rivers to naturally flood in the spring. It can also be done in smaller areas to return wetlands to more urban landscapes.
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Famous quotes containing the word restoration:
“The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
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—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)