Which nature prevails in the industrial places that industry abandons?

A marsh “celebrates the site’s past.” But which other pasts are obscured in this celebration?

From a brief history of the aesthetic project of “the wild,” a gripping story emerges.

In landscape restoration projects, a restored ecology and is not only functional, but an aesthetic object in the landscape, designed to be observed and engaged with: rivers are kayaked in, glades are walked through, marshes are looked out upon. Restoration emerges as an aesthetic exercise, an endeavor to (re)create an image of a past or lost wilderness.