Ecological restoration’s success depends on the integration of science and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). TEK can be defined as a complex amalgam of different layers of knowledge not suiting conventional science’s quantitative and deductive processes but based on trial and error and, at times, invested with a strong spiritual component. TEK has a patterned distribution and is shared, passed on from generation to generation, between members of a distinct cultural group, instructing on the interactions of their local environment. TEK therefore is often discarded as unproven, yet science’s positivist claim, maintaining whatever cannot be proven scientifically is not real, can just as easily be reduced to a belief system. Regardless, for over twenty years, traditional knowledge’s historical, long-term observations have been regarded as complementary to conventional science’s focus on synchrony.