| A great deal of effort goes into forest restoration but very little is devoted to monitoring the results. In consequence, the progress of many restoration projects is unknown. This thesis discusses the assessment of a suite of straightforward methods that might be used by volunteers to assess the progress of forest restoration projects. The effectiveness of the methods was determined by evaluating three forest restorations exhibiting different levels of progress. The vegetation, soils, landscape ecology and faunal use of each the restoration sites were compared with a reference forest. The results showed that this suite of methods can be used to differentiate between levels of restoration progress. In the second phase of the work, three trials were run with students. Generally, they found the methods easy to use and produced useful results.; This study has shown that a restoration site can be readily characterised using these methods. |
