Ogallala Life
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Empowering communities to rehydrate landscapes using natural infrastructure like leaky weirs and tree planting for resilience, biodiversity, and climate benefits; seeking funding to scale efforts with innovative ecological credit technology.

Our mission is to empower communities sustained by the high plains aquifer system (major aquifer, the Ogallala) to rehydrate their landscapes, for resiliency, water security, biodiversity & climate.

We launched a limited pilot last year, thanks in part to gitcoin, and installed over 110 instances of natural infrastructure in dryland streams, on 6 different watersheds with differing geological features. Then it dumped rain - a few washed out, we've learned lessons but generally very pleased.

We completed the heavy work for this years' project, which is highly visible with significant public interest. Our crew built over 80 leaky weirs along West Amarillo Creek at Wildcat Bluff, using 330 Christmas trees, rope, cedar stays & lots of local deadwood. We expect significant impact and await seasonal flooding :)

We planted over 100 bare-root seedlings, and a few hundred cuttings. Installed some bunds along a degraded slope, and seeded pollinator patches. Its' going to look great and we hope that Wildcat ends up being at the core of a transformative bioregional learning center.

Our objectives are to grow this bioregional pilots portfolio, help cultivate a bioregional learning center and crowdfund and curate foundational funding support. Our leadership is a student of the Design School to Regenerate Earth, and we're using the Bloom Network (see https://bloomnetwork.earth/texaspanhandle).

We have sufficient funding for the landscape rehydration work next winter, on these and different watersheds - some publicly accessible (a huge value add). But we lack funding for the technological work that is needed, that we're uniquely qualified to help build.

We have an ecocredit concept and intentions to build the same using Regen's permissionless ecocredit module. We have an active collaboration with dMeter (4dMRV) and a FOAM pilot IOT mesh which "proves" location. The tech is critically important to scale regen efforts and we humbly request your support, and thanks!

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