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Nat Geo Launched a Free Website for Printing Detailed Topographical Maps

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Badly built ''terraces'' - how do I stabilize them?

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Build soil to eliminate standing water?

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Newly installed swales put to the test by monsoon rain fails

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4 acres keyline designed food forest/savanna in Ontario

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Ridgecrest Farm - The Beginning

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Terracing on a steep slope in Appalachia

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Are small rocks bad for building steep terrace? (before I make a huge mistake!)

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Sepp Holzer spring development

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Idea - making a steep sided berm from sod

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Pond over flow, drainage help

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Large scale Swale Examples in Arizona or W.NM?

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What to do with the "Toilet Bowl" ravine?

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Swales and Orchard

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Pile o' rocks

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renting an excavator for swales... what am I shopping for?

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Disc or Chisel plough a field with 10 years of no cultivation?

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Building a small dam with quikrete

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

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how to fill in a mile long trench

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Just dig it rainfall moisture retention

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What to do with lots of Rocks and Boulders

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Wood chip driveway - a success story.

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Suburban backyard swale

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Earthworks in high desert around existing trees?

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A Water Cup Competition?!

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Making one side of a rain garden stable and firm

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Please help me decide on earthworks plan. Less irrigation, more food. Tough climate. Ideas?

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Grading for road access plus water harvesting

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Resources for Dam building info

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

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Terrace or Swale?

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

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French drain without plastic?

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Example of a pond without a liner

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setting up a natural stage or amphitheater

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Surveying tools equipment

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save our terracing....please!

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Images of Keyline, Keypoint, Berms, & Terraces: share for teaching & education

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Ideas for preventing ditch collapse/erosion?

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Water retention project begun

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

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Confirmed spring / One rock dams

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Replacing Irrigation with Permaculture by Paul Wheaton

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Ideal suntrap curve

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The puddle in my driveway

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Dams in a Valley

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Crater garden or pond?

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How do I work with washes on my Desert landscape?

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Controlling Frost Pockets

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Documenting my waterflows

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How to Make FREE Topograpghic Maps for Permaculture Design

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Installing tile drains in fields

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Chinampas - Has anyone built one?

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I want to build a little hill

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Submerged dams better than swales?

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Need trench/drain ideas

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Advice on using swales for drainage and dry roots in waterlogged tropics

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Please help me find resources to understand swales?

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What to do with a steep, sandy hillside

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