- Select site(s)
- Small area(s) (e.g., 1-3 acres)
- Ecologically coherent
- Need or oppotunity
- Record it
- Map the site (informal)
- Record images (before, during, and after)
- Identify natural features (e.g., stream, rock outcroping, wet area, northern or southern hillsides, etc.)
- Identify native species (i.e., native plants but also birds, wildlife, etc.)
- Designate working components
- Palettes of species
- Desirable
- Undesirable
- Complementary introductions
- Consider and plan changes
- Select palettes to increase, decrease, introduce
- Explain why
- Map intended changes onto subareas
- Designate sequences of actions
- Identify needed resources
- Inside effort
- Outsie effort
- Materials
- Other
- Implement
- Assess, document, and consider relation with surrounding areas