Restoration?
The LA Times covers recent attempts to reverse the drying out -- and resultant salination -- of the Salton Sea, California's largest lake.
The Salton Sea had been intermittenly flooded for millenia but dry for centuries when a 1905 mishap with an irrigation canal fed by the Colorado river flooded this basin, covering several hundred square miles with water. It has since become important for recreation and wildlife habitat.
The Times story details one campaigner's work to turn significant portions of the sea into soundly functioning wetlands.
This is one of those cases where the word "restoration" becomes riddled with the ironies of overlapping histories of a place. What, exactly, is being restored? To be clear, the ecological enhancement of an area which will be degraded if left to the whims of environmental process is welcome. But it's tempting to call it something else...