Informational Resources

The in-depth assessment presented in this document of the various significant impacts of the world’s livestock sector on the environment is deliberately termed Livestock’s long shadow so as to help raise the attention of both the technical and the general public to the very substantial contribution of animal agriculture to climate change and air pollution, to land, soil and water degradation… | Read more |

Check dams are common archaeological features found in ephemeral drainages throughout the American Southwest. Because of the region's environmental diversity, investigators have envisioned check dams as having served a number of functions. Interpretations of function have long been normative, based largely on ethnographic parallels that have recently been the subject of criticism. A contextual… | Read more |

Video: Hydrological Restoration of Degraded Grasslands in Arid and Semi-Arid Communities

We live in the Anthropocene. The entire surface of the earth has been impacted by human activity and our land management decisions. In this context, most of the grasslands in arid and semiarid regions are experiencing severe and continuing degradation. This work describes the… | Read more |

Advocates of “regenerative ranching” methods claim they’re slashing the carbon footprint of the ranching industry — but they’re actually propping up a scam that Big Ag is bankrolling.

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Over 3 billion hectares of lands worldwide are grazed by livestock, with a majority suffering degradation in ecological condition. Losses in plant productivity, biodiversity of plant and animal communities, and carbon storage are occurring as a result of livestock grazing. Holistic management (HM) has been proposed as a means of restoring degraded deserts and grasslands and reversing climate… | Read more |

RESUMEN

Vivimos en el Antropoceno. La superficie completa de la tierra ha sido impactada por la actividad humana y nuestro uso del suelo. En este con- texto, la mayoría de los pastizales en zonas áridas y semiáridas tienen procesos de degradación. Este trabajo describe los cambios provocados por la antropización del paisaje en pastizales del norte de México y Suroeste de Estados… | Read more |

Abstract

This paper describes the application of a comprehensive strategic approach for integrating Green Infrastructure (GI) in urban planning in Mexican communities along the U.S-Mexico border as a means to mitigate the environmental, economic, and social impacts of inadequate stormwater management. Population growth and extended urban footprints in the region's cities have decreased… | Read more |

This is the original proposal submitted by Stream Dynamics. Inc. to create a supply of water and put it to beneficial use.

Executive Summary

This is a three part proposal. This proposal may be broken into three separate proposals and submitted as such during the Tier II evaluation, but for now let it stand. The parts are 1) Water Harvesting, 2) Watershed Restoration, and 3) Road… | Read more |

Executive Summary

Right as Rain

Stream Dynamics, Inc. is pleased to keep on the table a fantastic and revolutionary concept that will go a long way towards permanently solving our region's water problems. Water harvesting, done in thousands of locations on a regional scale can provide abundant and cost effective water resources to thousands of the residents of the four county… | Read more |

Arid-land springs are among the most rare and endangered ecosystems of the American Southwest. Arid-land spring ciénegas are wet meadows and marshes that… | Read more |

We look at the link between climate change and meat consumption on the heels of a series of damning reports that say if humans don’t act now to halt climate change, the results will be catastrophic. A new study by the World Meteorological Organization shows the past four years have been the hottest on record. On Tuesday, the United Nations reported that carbon emissions reached record highs in… | Read more |

Restoration of Rare or Declining Natural Communities: Zeedyk Structures for Riparian Areas and Wet Meadows.