This session addresses the ecological and social implications of forest restoration when carried out at the scale of the landscape. The goal is to bring together practitioners from throughout the Americas who have taken innovative, large-scale experimental approaches to forest restoration. We present studies involving manipulation or restoration of forest spatial configuration to achieve goals such as improved nutrient retention or hydrologic characteristics, better continuity for wildlife, alteration of flammability characteristics, or alteration of ecosystem successional trajectories. Because forested landscapes inevitably have people living in them, we also present the work of social scientists who have studied human communities in restored forested landscapes.