Spotlight Nogales International: BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK

Intro: “It’s not a high-tech solution to climate change, . .“So the water sits,” said Kurt Vaughn, the network’s executive director. “And that increased retention time, where it’s just sitting there, gives it opportunity for gravity to do its thing.”

Measuring progress

Gauging the effectiveness of the watershed restoration practice can be a challenge.“It can be really difficult to quantify, to put numbers on what these structures are doing,” said Wagner, the group’s watershed restoration manager. . .The practice itself can be traced back centuries, if not millennia. . .Further north, in the Salt River Valley, the Indigenous Hohokam people shaped canals centuries ago, using gravity to control water-flow . . ."

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One rock at a time, Patagonia group works to recharge aquifer

• By Angela Gervasi Nogales International 

". . .As conservationists seek solutions to a dwindling groundwater supply across the American West, staff with the Borderlands Restoration Network in Patagonia are doing the same – literally, one rock at a time.