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Dryland Design Teachings from the US Southwest
Dryland Design Teachings from the US Southwest In the summer of 2021, I visited the Southwest United States after attending Earthship Academy at the Earthship Greater World Community, and was able to see in person many examples of sustainable dryland landscape design – something I had wanted to do since I began my journey into…
Growing a Forest in the Ruins of a Sawmill: Reflections on the Spring 2025 SER Field Trip
The Spring 2025 Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) Field Trip started, as many other field trips do, at the Burke Museum parking lot in the early morning. Soon, we assembled our crew (shaved down by illnesses and schedule changes) and took off toward the South Salish Sea region, where we would visit two sites –…
Harvesting Rainbows Amidst Smoky Skies: The Origin & Intentions of Woollypod Design
To keep myself busy and make use of my gap year somehow, I began to turn to the ecology all around me. I realized that despite spending most of my life in Eastern Washington’s shrub steppe, I knew hardly a thing about its ecology – its native plants and animals, the biotic crust that covered…