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The evolution of Society for Ecological Restorations principles and standards—counter-response to Gann et al Eric Higgs, Jim Harris, Stephen Murphy, Keith Bowers, Richard Hobbs, Willis Jenkins, Jeremy Kidwell, Nik Lopoukhine, Bethany Sollereder, Katie Suding, Allen Thompson, Steven Whisenant Published published “The evolution of Society for Ecological Restorations principles and standards—counter-response to Gann et al” in <em>Restoration Ecology</em>, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 431-433, 2018 restoration-ecology restoration-ecology no Restoration-Ecology-2018-Higgs.pdf 2018-06-02 2018-06-02 https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.12821

In response to our recent article (Higgs et al. 2018) in these pages, George Gann and his coauthors defended the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) International Standards, clari ed several points, and introduced some new perspectives. We offer this counter-response to address some of these perspectives. More than anything, our aims are in sharpening the eld of restoration in a time of rapid scaling-up of interest and effort, and support further constructive dialogue going forward. Our perspective remains that there is an important distinction needed between “Standards” and “Principles” that is largely unheeded by Gann et al. (2018). We encourage SER to consider in future iterations of its senior policy document to lean on principles rst, and then to issue advice on standards that meet the needs of diverse conditions and social, economic, and political realities.