“Around the world they have proven effective in hydrating vast landscapes, building soil and biodiversity, mitigating floods, halting erosion, reestablishing wetlands and driving carbon sequestration. Every day landholders ask us for help with landscapes that are so degraded they no longer store moisture – even flooding rains don’t hydrate them but simply erode them further. Before these landscapes were cleared of trees for agriculture, they were remarkably good at cycling available water on our arid continent. These structures simply slow things down and give those magical natural…
