Ecological Enhancement:
Quick Start Guide

• What is Ecological Enhancement?
  A set of principles and practices to help landowners improve the ecological quality of their properties
  • Principles
  • Practices
    
    
• What are the Values underlying ChicoryLane and Ecological Enhancement?
  Ecological Enhancement Balanced with Preservation through Collaborative Informed Stewardship
  • ChicoryLane Mission in seven loaded words
    
    
• How does Ecological Enhancement relate to Conservation Easement and to Forest Management Planning?
  Conservation easements primarily protect against subdivision and development. Most do not address improving the land or restoring parcels to some approximate earlier state, e.g., old farm restoration. Consider doing more.
  
  • Motivation
  • Conservation Easement (partial example)
  • Forest Management Plan (partial example)
    
    
• Are there example or in-process Ecological Enhancement projects at ChicoryLane?
  There are a half-dozen projects currently underway at ChecoryLane and an a like number expected to follow. Visitors are welcome to visit, talk with us about them, and to explore how what we are doing might apply to their own interests and properties.
  • Projects
    
    
• Where did the term Ecological Enhancement and the concept come from?
  The term emerged in our minds several years ago in reference to ongoing work at ChicoryLane; we later discovered that the term was already being used in England landscaping and municipal planning, but with a different emphasis.
  • Concept
  • ChicoryLane Model
  • English Model and elsewhere

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July, 2023

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