CCC Swale

Very cool to see what time and water can do in a desert landscape. highly recommend for those permaculture minded individuals. definitely worth the trek to see.
Dec 10th, 2020

@Justin Judd Bill Mollison found the big swale in 1986 (video on youtube) He had the ccc documents with him to point out the mounds.. Trees were already tall.. same rich humus soil as when Geoff Lawton visited 20 or so years later...
Oct 25th, 2020

Hard to locate precisely. But it seems over nearly a century, those swales have had such a wide positive impact that a very wide region is green & lush compared to the surrounding sandy desert. After some walking around I was able to find the large mounds that those CCC folks layed out nearly 100 years ago. Those guys were so far ahead of their times in understanding repairative earthworks. Only if we had such consciousness presidents like FDR these days.
Oct 17th, 2020

Not to burst your bubble but, this is not a century old CCC Swale. "The United States Bureau of Reclamation implemented mitigation efforts in the late 1980s to address the problem of restrictions to animal movement caused by the Tucson Aqueduct-Phase B of the CAP canal system.... spent about $6.2 million for land acquisition, construction of crossings, and addition of water catchments for the Wildlife Mitigation Corridor." Popowski, Ronald J., and Paul R. Krausman. "Use of Crossings over the Tucson Aqueduct by Selected Mammals." The Southwestern Naturalist 47.3 (2002): 363-71. Web.
Aug 4th, 2019