Kongjian Yu is a doctor of design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, he is an honorary foreign fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a professor at the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University. Jia Yuan is an associate professor and PhD supervisor for the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Research Fellow at the Key Laboratory of New Technology for Construction of Cities in Mountain Area, Chongqing University, as well as is a cooperative research fellow of the CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration and Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Not to mention a previous guest editor for the issue “Themed on Urban Wilderness and Planting Design,” of Landscape Architecture Frontiers journal. Bradley Cantrell is a professor and chair in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the School of Architecture, University of Virginia. Vance G. Martin is founder and co-chairman at the Wilderness Specialist Group (IUCN/WCPA), as well president of the Wilderness Foundation Global, and president of the WILD Foundation. Ingo Kowarikis a professor of ecosystem science and plant ecology at the Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany. Walter Kehm is senior principle at LANDinc, he has a MLA from Harvard University. Peter DEL Tredici is Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, and has a PhD in Biology from Boston University. Thomas Rainer is principal of Phyto Studio. Taro Zheming Cai is a PhD student in the department of John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at University of Toronto. Nancy Seaton is a senior associate designer at Future Green Studio.