This allowed wetland managers to select basin restoration sites that would also serve as wildlife habitat, particularly for waterfowl production. Wetland restoration is a learning process. Man's ability to engineer outcomes directed at replicating or restoring functional values is limited. He points out that while the objective may be restoration of the original habitat conditions and values, in reality this may amount to only partial rehabilitation of original functional values or creation of a different sort of system. Wise use probably can be achieved where wetland restoration, rehabilitation or creation seeks to alleviate past unwise use.
Factual information is needed.
Without a current wetland inventory and, in this instance, an inventory of drainage or historic wetlands, achieving the desired results would be difficult. Objectives and procedures must coincide. Restoration of hectares may not necessarily meet narrowly defined goals for restoration of values. Restoration as a means to achieve wise use is not cheap. Towards the Wise Use of Wetlands , edited by T. J. Davis, is being published to the Ramsar Web site in lots of individual parts, organized by a hyperlinked table of contents .