ChicoryLane Model:
Practices

• Select site(s)
  • Ecologically coherent
  • Comfortable scale (e.g., 1-3 acres)
  • Need or opportunity
    
    
• Document it
  • Map site (informal)
  • Record images
    • Before, during, and after
  • Identify natural features
    • Stream, rock outcroping, wet area, northern or southern hillsides, etc.)
  • Identify native species
    • Plants, birds, wildlife, etc.
      • e.g. Plant List
        
        
• Plan
  • Reflect on Documentation Stage
    • What have you learned about your site?
    • How have your perspective and desires changed?
  • Pay special attention to the species already there
    • If they thrive in this site, additional plants or similar species probably will, too
  • What aspects should be left as-is?
  • What aspects invite change?
    • Species whose numbers could be increased
      • e.g., small clusters
    • Species whose numbes could be decreased
      • e.g., invasives
    • Species not currently pesent whose introduction could be beneficial
      • e.g., diversity
  • Define palettes of similar or complementary species
    • Desirable
    • Undesirable
    • New introductions
  • Map intended changes
  at the palette level
   
• Implement
  • Designate sequences of actions
  • Identify resources needed
    • e.g., effort (inside and outside), materials, financial, other
  • Timeline
• Prioritize and Organize
• Accommodate (or not) the Unexpected
  • It's YOUR project
    
    
• Assess
  • Has your project improved the Ecological Quality of the site?
    • If so, in what ways
    • If not, why not
    • What would you do differently
  • Explain and document
    • Qualitative, rather than Quantitative, emphasis
  • Note relations to surrounding areas