Rehydrate the Plains
INTRODUCTION
Journey Overview:
Landscape rehydration for the aspiring practitioner on the Southern High Plains.
Where is the Southern High Plains, the geology, ecology & hydrology? How does water cycle through. What is a water budget, and how can that be manipulated.
We’ll also explore some of our prior projects, like along W Amarillo Creek at Wildcat Bluff Nature Center and Rock Creek at Johnson Park in Borger.
We’ll review place-based, water-centered technologies from ancestral and modern sources starting in the Southern Great Plains and American Southwest, then expanding to similar climates globally.
We’ll review place-based, water-centered technologies from ancestral and modern sources starting in the Southern Great Plains and American Southwest, then expanding to similar climates globally.
We wind up with presentations about opportunities, actual places, and concept(s) of landscape rehydration work to be done at this place.
We wind up with presentations about opportunities, actual places, and concept(s) of landscape rehydration work to be done at this place.
The Learning Journey:
Over the course of the learning journey, the participants should consider a few locations – places important to them, and the local water cycle – as candidates for landscape rehydration work. Towards the end (Module 5), each participant is invited to present on a place as a project concept – where would you focus, what would you do, how would you go about it and why this, here.
Over the course of each module (~monthly), each participant is invited to read or review those primary resources attached to that module. Will and other Guests will present material relevant to that particular module, and the cohort will engage in group discussion.
Please try to look over the primary resources for each module, before the cohort discussion of that module.
Much supplemental information is provided for the modules too. Participants aren’t expected to review these prior to the discussion, but welcome.
Guide & Contributors
Will Masters is an attorney and nature lover, privileged with deep ties & access to the natural environment here in the Texas Panhandle. He’s a cofounder of Ogallala Life, now a program of Ogallala Commons, and an environmental educator at Wildcat Bluff Discovery Center.
Will has been involved with three landscape rehydration pilot and demonstration projects along the Canadian River corridor, and more soon. He will discuss their work, lessons learned, and some opportunities within GCD.
Contributors:
Donavan Johnson
Patti Stouter
Have any questions about the material? Please contact Learn@ogallala.life!