As a restoration practitioner, I hope that every time I put a seed in the ground, I’ve done a bit of good in the world. At the same time, I sit on the edge of my seat after adding thousands of seeds, waiting for that one individual to emerge and make it to adulthood. Sometimes, that back and forth makes it hard to understand if my restoration work is making a consistent difference across the landscape. Scaling from my own work to all of our combined efforts in restoration is even more mind-bending.
