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Garden picture exchange!

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Major earthworks starting -- central texas

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Pond Hand dug in one month

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FREE Natural Raised Beds

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Sepp's Spring Terrace

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Land Clearing Options

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types of shoes for shoveling? types of shovels?

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Ice Stupa Artificial Glacier Project

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Heavy equipment thread

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Cedar plank drain for land reclamation

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Swale berm planting suggestions

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how to build a natural swimming pond?

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water for the future: capturing seasonal rainfall for future generations

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Has anyone ever built a living road?

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I plan to build a small concrete weir (2-3ft crest) along a disappearing creek in Haiti.

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A Pallet Bridge over Muddy Waters

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Using a wattle fence as retaining wall on terraced garden, bad idea?

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Design of Auger Trolley

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Newly installed swales put to the test by monsoon rain fails

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fires and floods !

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"Problem is the solution" - Ways to apply this to ruts formed in steep hillside road?

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Ideas for preventing ditch collapse/erosion?

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Gabion wall in a pond?

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diverting water off shared private road-cheap? Easy? Not annoy neighbors?

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French drain without plastic?

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geocells (and why your next driveway, parking space, or entry road may want them)

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Swale dimensions and frequency

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Swale End Design Question

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Swales in Humid Tropical Mountains. Yes or no?

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Turning a Floodwater Liability into Biologically Filtered Groundwater Assets

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How steep is too steep for a swale?

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How to design annual beds on slope?

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Design of Auger Trolley

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ponds

how to build a natural swimming pond?

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Help.... working on slopes over 50% gradient.!!!

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Water Harvesting Experiment

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French drain without plastic?

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Road building over the ages

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Has anyone ever built a living road?

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Garden picture exchange!

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Contours/ridge watershed lines from LIDAR data

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Ideas for preventing ditch collapse/erosion?

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Gabion wall in a pond?

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I plan to build a small concrete weir (2-3ft crest) along a disappearing creek in Haiti.

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Raw land in Wyoming

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How steep is too steep for a swale?

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Vetiver grass - erosion control case study on Vanuatu

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Water management for flat ground

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Swale on very sandy soil, cold, pointless? Harmful?

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Swale rough calculations

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Humbolt county, Nevada road building

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Newly installed swales put to the test by monsoon rain fails

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Sheep Fleece as Geotextile

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Using a wattle fence as retaining wall on terraced garden, bad idea?

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Need help with swale placement on a slope for fruit trees

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Swales on heavily forested land

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ditches/swales/furrows

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Cocoa Plantation following Keyline Concept

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kiwis

How do I keep my soil dry enough to grow hardy kiwis?

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Can anyone let me know if I did this keyline design properly?

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Swale dimensions and frequency

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"Problem is the solution" - Ways to apply this to ruts formed in steep hillside road?

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diverting water off shared private road-cheap? Easy? Not annoy neighbors?

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Building woodland roads for Homes

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Swales, bunds, puddles, terraces, meanders, checkdams, waffles, earthworks

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wetlands

Waterlogged land

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Swale End Design Question

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geocells (and why your next driveway, parking space, or entry road may want them)

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Swales on heavy clay soil?

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rainwater catchment

Turning a Floodwater Liability into Biologically Filtered Groundwater Assets

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Swales in Humid Tropical Mountains. Yes or no?

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greening the desert

Keyline (subsoil ripping) in Chihuhuan Desert (PIC's)

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What to do with a steep, sandy hillside

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circular swales.

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online learning

ENROLLMENT OPEN: Online Water Restoration Course Taught By Zach Weiss

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Wood chip driveway - a success story.

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Crater garden or pond?

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Water Collection from Hillside

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Earthworks on very gentle slope of clay soil? Food forest Washington state, U.S.

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how close to a tree line can I make a swale?

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road surface options, long driveway, remote location

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soil

Here is a way everyone can store water

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How big an earth auger bit can you use on a 43cc auger head?

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Earthworks in high desert around existing trees?

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Stump removal, which is lesser evil?

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Keyline- A question from a novice

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