Texas Restoration Notes

Currently, there is an information void with respect to restoration and management activities and research in Texas and surrounding bioregions. Although some research is being done and published in national and international journals, information and data are spread across a wide variety of discipline-oriented journals, many of which are difficult to find outside of a major university library. A great deal more restoration-oriented research and management is being done outside of academia -- in state, federal, and local governmental and non-governmental agencies -- and is published as "gray literature," remaining largely unknown outside a small circle of researchers and managers. Furthermore, with the rapid expansion of outdoor education and field ecology programs in public schools, a forum is needed for teachers to share and discuss ways to present restoration to children. Discussions with restorationists around the state have indicated that a magazine bringing restoration ideas and research specific to the region together into a single publication is not only desirable, but also necessary.

Texas Restoration Notes is a biannual publication on regional ecological restoration, designed to address this void in information exchange. The magazine's general style will be non-technical, to appeal to restorationists outside of academia, but will also provide technical information where warrated.