Cane-tuck Ducks: Floatable Debris and the Coldstream Environmental Project
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Keywords: restoration, ecological surprise, floatable debris
Abstract Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Authors:
Karen Suzanne Kinslow, University of Kentucky, Department of Geography
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Abstract
Ecological restoration projects and practices mobilize a particular representation of past into the present and project this future onto a landscape. In many ways, the very prospect of ecological restoration begets an arcane vision of balanced, whole, and repaired environmental systems and relationships. But, what happens between the representation of what could or should be designed and what actually materializes? This paper gets at that question by considering the accumulation of floatable debris at the Coldstream Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) at Cane Run Creek in Lexington, KY. How can post-restoration ecological surprise be fit into a larger-scale planning and management goals in the Cane Run Watershed?
Cane-tuck Ducks: Floatable Debris and the Coldstream Environmental Project
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