-
It behooves those of us who live in the West to think proactively about how to fight desertification. At this point, if we are not actively making choices…
-
Here on Rain & Shine we are looking at ways we can protect our communities from desertification in the face of a destabilizing climate by slowing down the…
-
Here on the western slope we have been blessed with a combination of warmth from the desert combined with steady streams of water that flow down from the…
-
Indegenious cultures have historically practiced agriculture from a position that is deeply centered in a particular landscape. There was little…
-
Nitrogen is the basis of fertility. It’s the base of the amino acids that make up our DNA and the proteins in our bodies. Nitrogen is a common limiting…
-
The excessive burning of fossil fuels and mismanagement of forests and soils have released vast amounts of terrestrial and fossil carbon into the…
-
In a drying landscape one thing we can do to halt desertification is to restore small water cycles. What does that mean? It means keeping the water that…
-
The way we manage water has largely been focused on quantity and quality. This has led to a scarcity mentality where we are faced with there not being…
-
Snowpack was good in winter 2019/2020 so why did our rivers get low so early? The snow melted early and extraordinarily quickly this spring. This along…