CLEMSON, SC - The Coastal Plain Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration and The Clemson University Restoration Institute will hold the 2008 annual symposium and membership meeting; Legacy Landscapes: Ecological Restoration in Post Industrial Settings, on March 18-20, at Clemson University Madren Conference Center.

This chapter of the international society includes scientists, land managers, landscape architects, engineers, community activists, students, and practitioners in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The purpose is to promote ecological restoration as a means of sustaining the diversity of life on Earth and reestablishing an ecologically healthy relationship between nature and culture.

Participants will be provided current project and research updates from the Southeastern US during two days of presentations and an evening poster session. A third day, Thursday 20 March is scheduled for field trips or workshops in the Upstate region of South Carolina.

Topics will focus on current restoration projects in the Southeastern US; these may include (but are not limited to) restoration of industrial areas, upland restoration, wetland restoration, rare species restoration, landscape-scale ecosystem restoration, impacts of restoration on wildlife, monitoring of restoration projects, invasive species eradication, philosophy of restoration, and case studies.