Water Harvesting and Biodiversity Day 2: Planting!

03/20/07 • -1 min

Exploring Arizona Life Science Research and Biodiversity with the Tree of Life Web Project

Join Brad Lancaster and volunteers planting native Sonoran Desert plants to re-vegetate an urban landscape in Tucson, Arizona. Curb cutting and terraced and mulched basins are two permaculture techniques explored in this episode.

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Water Harvesting and Biodiversity, Sustainably Revegatating and Urban Landscape. Episode 1

University of Arizona Students, UA peace corps fellows and volunteers joined Brad Lancaster, Tucson permaculture expert, for a workshop on water harvesting on the grounds of the Nature Conservancy Headquarters in Tucson, Arizona.

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Exploring Backyard Ants: Pogonomyrmex

Arizona has the most ant diversity in the USA, with over 300 known species. This video profiles Pogonomyremex, or "pogos" commonly found in the Sonoran Desert of the Southwestern United States. Entomologists and UA Phd Students Kim Franklin and Chris Schmidt, and ToL Learning Materials Editor and Educator Lisa Schwartz spent some time in Chris's backyard observing, discussing and questioning Pogonomyremex behavior.