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‘Where There Once Was Water’: How the driest places are finding innovative ways to conserve MORE In “Where There Once Was Water,” Darlene Arviso works with DigDeep to deliver water to residents in remote areas of the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. Photo courtesy of Brittany App.
Through her new documentary, “Where There Once Was Water,” Brittany App introduces innovative ways to conserve water, restore ecosystems, and reconsider our relationship with the natural world. The film follows her venturing through California and the Southwest in search of people practicing wise water management.
“How can we help those who don t have the means to still have access to clean drinking water? Because clean drinking water is and if it s not, it should be a human right. Not every human being needs to water their golf course, right? But we all need to be able to drink clean water. So I think we are entering a time where we will be for
New Mexico Leopold Conservation Award Finalists Named
Ute Creek Cattle Company of Bueyeros in Harding County. Courtesy/Sand County Foundation
LEOPOLD CONSERVATION AWARD News:
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Given in honor of renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold, the prestigious award recognizes farmers, ranchers, and forestland owners who inspire others with their dedication to land, water, and wildlife habitat management on private, working lands.
The finalists are:
JX Ranch of Tucumcari in Quay County: Tom and Mimi Sidwell have adopted grazing practices that create a resilient landscape and mitigate drought. These efforts have increased ground cover, which means more forage for livestock and wildlife, and less sediment in the air and water. It also pulls carbon out of the atmosphere, and increases soil’s ability to infiltrate and store water.
Evolution and Prairie Soils
Advocate, South Eastman Transition Initiative
Evolution is not only an intriguing process, it is also inevitable. For plants and animals that means the fittest survive. Landscapes evolve to their climax. That is the rule of evolution. An understanding of this should affect the way we manage all aspects of our environment, and our natural environment is prairie. I was reminded of this again recently, listening to a TED talk by Allan Savory.
Allan Savory is an ecologist who is probably the leading world voice advocating Holistic Management of the grasslands of this planet. Savory grew up in, what is now, Zimbabwe where he became acquainted with desertification as it affects the semi-arid, tropical parts of the world. Where desertification had begun (as a result of over grazing), he observed that protecting such land from grazing totally did not result in the restoration of that land. On the other hand, grazing such land at high intensity, but for short pe
Former Rugby player David Pocock talks about sustainable ways of managing land as part of the solution for the climate crisis and the loss of biodiversity.