Gently curving drainages are my images of a healthy landscape.
Gently curving drainages are my images of a healthy landscape.
Gully gashed drainages are my images of a landscape bleeding, fading.
A powerful technique for helping drainages heal is to diverge runoff so
it never gains erosive power.
These images of V's are a symbol of ecological service, the altering of
flows to create more possibilities.
This image is of the same area as the image above except taken looking
downslope at it.
These next two images are also two perspectives on a divergence from a
road-caused gully. The water used to flow down the right-hand channel.
This previous gully has now silted in and is beginning to revegetate. The
area downslope of the gully used to be covered with yellow star thistle.
Now the area is an active alluvial fan filled with beautiful brodeias.
View from downhill looking upslope. Much of the water flows off to the
right and soaks in a broad expanse of the hillside.