2025 Spring Ecosystem Restoration Weekend Workshop Series

Special Guest Teacher: Jan-Willem Jansens (Ecotone Landscape Planning LLC)

Description

Throughout this series of five workshops, we will collectively design a site restoration plan and construct low-tech erosion control structures using wood and on-site farm materials, with guidance and feedback from Jan-Willem Jansens. We will broaden our comprehension of water cycles, climate, and agroecology within this fragile environment. We will explore political structures through lenses of decentralized governance using examples from various cultural and biological systems. Altogether, through this work we will enhance our shared knowledge of how modest and precise actions taken today can affect soil health, biodiversity, cultural and social well-being, and resilience of food resources. Now and for future generations.

Over the course of these workshops we will:

  • Implement techniques in combination with listening to theory pertaining to building erosion control structures
  • Network and socialize
  • Participate in discussion and seminars
  • Prepare, eat and enjoy local food
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Dates

  • March 21-23
  • April 11 – 13
  • April 25-27
  • May 16-18
  • June 13-15

Example how logs on contour, slash on slopes, and wicker weirs together help stabilize sediment and cover bare soil. (Photo: Jan-Willem Jansens).

Erosion control structure. Lop and scatter of juniper slash slows and spreads flows at the toe of a gully and helps stabilize sediment after peak flows are reduced by a small log rack higher up in the gully’s canyon. (Photo: Jan-Willem Jansens)

A log rack (or trash rack) from local juniper posts (on right side in image) that has captured sediment and sends flows off to the “right-bank” of the channel (on left side in image) where logs create a sill that holds the grade. (Photo: Jan-Willem Jansens.)

Example of an erosion control structure made with Pinon-Juniper materials. Wicker weir built from juniper pickets. Woven with juniper boughs, and supported with large stones. (Photo: Jan-Willem Jansens)

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

2025 Ecosystem Restoration Series

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Weekend Workshop: March 21 - 23(Required)
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Weekend Workshop: April 25 - 27(Required)
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Weekend Workshop: May 16 - 18(Required)
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Weekend Workshop: June 13 - 15(Required)
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