Protecting only 1 section

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Our company wants to be pretty specific on QC of documents. Because of this they have specific guidelines that they want followed. Because of this I have been tasked with creating some 'buttons' on a new ribbon.
long story short, they also want to track who does what QC role and when. I looked up protecting a section and that seemed to be the right direction, but when you initiate that protection level, I cannot do track changes...

Basically, I am hoping to protect a specific section in the document from being edited, but still being able to work in the rest of the document. Is this possible?