All over the world, eco-restoration projects are springing up to heal our damaged, degraded landscapes and restore balance to our relationship with the Earth.
The Center for Biological Diversity defines ecosystem restoration as follows:
“The process of reclaiming habitat and ecosystem functions by restoring the lands and waters on which plants and animals depend. Restoration is a corrective step that involves eliminating or modifying causes of ecological degradation and re-establishing the natural processes — like natural fires, floods, or predator-prey relationships — that sustain and renew ecosystems over time.”
Ecosystem restoration activities include all kinds of tending and repair work on the land, from removing harmful invasive species to planting and tending native ones, from improving soil health to increasing biodiversity, from reintroducing keystone species, to restoring watersheds.
At Hotlum, we’re engaging not only in ecosystem restoration, but in a return to eco as our home. The word “eco” comes from the Greek “oikos,” meaning home or household. Our understanding of eco-restoration incorporates not only tending the land, but tending our relationship with the land, reclaiming a sense of home on the land. We wholeheartedly believe that we must regenerate the living systems not simply try to “restore” them to some idea of what a climax equilibrium might have been in the past. Therefore we are looking towards the future of our ecosystem in the face of an ever changing world.
Our eco-restoration projects include:
We consider eco-restoration an essential component of personal and collective healing. As we heal the land, we heal ourselves.
To learn more or join us contact us.
There is opportunity to participate in ecosystem restoration at Mount Shasta Water unConference, September 11-13, 2026.