摘要：Wide community participation in ecological restoration projects is encouraged because ofthe multiple values generated. However, it is often assumed that volunteer projects cannot contribute tothe production of generalizable ecological knowledge because they are locally focused and don't followscientific protocols or ecological theory. Anecdotally, the many successful volunteer projects suggest thatsome amateurs possess insight that could benefit restoration ecology generally, but the processes ofgenerating, testing, and sharing local restoration knowledge remains poorly understood. This ethnographicstudy of the volunteer restorationist organization, Friends of Organ Pipes National Park, in Victoria,Australia, explores local ecological knowledge generation. Our results suggest that there are similaritiesbetween amateurs' knowledge practices and traditional ecological knowledge such as extendedapprenticeships, narratives, and the importance of experience of place. There are also similarities withpractices of science, for example, semistructured planning, monitoring, evaluating, and documentingobservations. We conclude that the ways amateurs generate, share, and test knowledge are complex anddynamic, producing a kind of hybrid between local and scientific knowledge
