Ecological Restoration 

Beaver dam analogs mimic the engineering design of beavers. Small willow waddles are placed across the flow of water slowing it down and allowing it to access it's floodplain in a desired location. The holding of water improves flood risk, lowers the chance of wildfire, improves water quality, and recharges groundwater.  

One of the simplest ways to help a degraded ecosystem is by removing lawn and replacing it with native plants. Lawn is a biological desert. The pursuit of a perfect lawn often leads to the use of insecticides, herbicide and fertilizers. All this negatively effects our native ecology and ultimately our health and wellbeing.  

Some native species have adapted to be rapid growers in loose soils. These plants grow vigorous root systems which help stabilize the soil. As the soil begins to stabilize mycorrhizal fungi will connect to the roots helping with the uptake of water and carbon storage in the soil. Willow waddle terraces can be constructed in steep slopes to help prevent topsoil erosion. 

Rain gardens are designed to capture the surface water runoff from hard impermeable surfaces of your surroundings and channel it into a garden with plants adapted to wet conditions. A small depression in the soil helps to guide and store the water. Typically the water from a roof or driveway can be directed towards the raingarden keeping this water, that would have otherwise been carried away in the ditch, on the landscape. Allowing a varying moisture conditions and regimes on you site allows a greater diversity of plant species to survive.