Education & Outreach
The Quivira Coalition in collaboration with Earth Works Institute, has produced three guides on 1) riparian restoration, 2) erosion control and 3) planned grazing. The Quivira Coalition in collaboration with the Rio Puerco Management Committee, Bill Zeedyk and NMED-SWQB have produced a water harvesting from rural roads manual due out by January, 2006. These publications provide an overview of practices that are currently being implemented on Comanche Creek and its tributaries.
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*Printed copies of the following field guides are available at the Quivira office upon request. Please send requests to trout@comanchecreek.org.
An Introduction to Erosion Control
This field guide is intended to inform those who depend on the soil and its life-giving properties. This guide discusses ways to regenerate soil so that it holds more water, supports more vegetation, and reduces soil erosion. In the end, soil conservation will reduce "non-point source pollution" in surface watercourses. This guide focuses on affordable and replicable techniques based on natural processes and advocate the use of low-cost and locally available, natural materials.
An Introduction to Induced Meandering
This is an illustrated field guide for use by participants of riparian restoration educational workshops and field tours, along with contractors and volunteers (during installation of structures). It is a general promotion for Bill Zeedyk's techniques for a broad audience that include project managers, government officials, and others.
Rangeland Health and Planned Grazing Field Guide
This field guide is an introduction to grazing management designed to help landowners, contractors, and agency personnel make better grassland management decisions. Grazing can have a deleterious effect on water quality, if it is not managed well. Improved management decisions will increase vegetative cover, control erosion, and improve animal production.