Includes bibliographical references and index.

Archaeology, paleoecosystems, and ecological restoration / Michael J. O'Brien -- The contribution of ethnobiology to the reconstruction and restoration of historic ecosystems / M. Kat Anderson -- The pleasures and pitfalls of written records / Michael Edmonds -- Oral history: a guide to its creation and use / James E. Fogerty -- Maps and photographs / Tina Reithmaier -- Government land office survey and other early land surveys / Gordon G. Whitney and Joseph DeCant -- Inferring forest stand history from observational field evidence / P.L. Marks and Sana Gardescu -- Using dendrochronology to reconstruct the history of forest and woodland ecosystems / Kurt F. Kipfmueller and Thomas W. Swetnam -- Palynology: an important tool for discovering historic ecosystems / Owen K. Davis -- Packrat middens as a tool for reconstructing historic ecosystems / David Rhode -- Techniques for discovering historic animal assemblages / Michael L. Morrison -- Geomorphology, hydrology, and soils / Stanley W. Trimble -- Inferring vegetation history from phytoliths / Glen G. Fredlund -- Using historical data in ecological restoration: a case study from Nantucket / Peter W. Dunwiddie -- A multiple-scale history of past and ongoing vegetation change within the Indiana dunes / Kenneth L. Cole -- Implementing the archaeo-environmental reconstruction technique: rediscovering the historic ground layer of three plant communities in the greater Grand Canyon region / Thom Alcoze and Matt Hurteau -- Documenting local landscape change: the San Francisco Bay area historical ecology project / Robin Grossinger.