As urban development continuously causes ecosystem degradation, wetland restoration is being pushed for by international as well as local initiatives, programs and funding. But restoring amphibious urban terrains is far from a straightforward process. Diverse human and non-human ways of knowing, valuing and living with ecosystems come to the fore in claims about imperatives for their restoration on the ground. To the background of historical and contemporary injustices entangled with environmental management across the world, including Sweden where state-driven settler colonialism in the 19th century underpinned large-scale drainage of marshes in Sápmi, the ongoing mobilization around wetland restoration calls for careful inquiry and raises concern about how restoration expertise give prominence to certain urban futures at the expense of other, potentially more just and inclusive. This presentation will discuss a recently started project that addresses questions about the ongoing constructing and establishing of restoration expertise, and the diverse grounds for expertise included and excluded from this making. It addresses these questions through fieldwork around urban wetland restoration where an array of expertise seeks legitimacy, restoration as a partly backward-looking activity collides with planning’s future oriented vision, and where wetlands transcend ontological and organizational water-land separations.