To practice restoration, we must be both patient and optimistic. It can take years, decades, or generations to see the impact of our work. With this year’s above-average monsoon, we were lucky to see some accelerated results. BRN’s Watershed Restoration Field Crew took the opportunity to monitor our erosion control structures in action during this summer’s epic monsoon season. Our team observed the effectiveness of our structures in slowing the force of storm runoff in epheme

My name is Zach Farley, and I work for Borderlands Restoration Network as the Watershed Crew Lead. I began at BRN in the Native Plant Program as a temporary seed collection tech, and it was my first real experience working with people who loved plants and animals with all their hearts. Botanists, horticulturists, ecologists. I’d heard of these people before, but had never really experienced them in all of their glory. I learned about longifolia, side oats gramma, and curtapen