Monitoring
Transects, quadrats, and photo points.
You can't manage what you don't count
Monitoring is how a restoration stops being a hope and becomes a dataset. Three tools, done twice a year.
The tools
transects walk a fixed line, count species per metre quadrats drop a 1m square, count everything in it photo points same shot, same spot, every season
What we watch
Indicator species — the poppies, rattle, and oxeyes that tell you the balance is holding. If they're stable across three years, the meadow has caught.