Trans-Pecos & GLCI Water Harvesting Project

Student Field Day - Foster Cox Ranch

April 30, 2004

 

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Pecos County Ext.

 

 

 

 

Project sponsors: TX Coop. Ext; Pecos Valley RC&D, Ft. Stockton High School; TX Water Resources Institute; USDA-NRCS; UT-Permian Basin Center - Energy & Economic Diversification; UT-University Lands
"This project showcased a hand-on approach from a variety of practitioners to stimulate creative thinking on ways to harvest and enhance the effectiveness of naturally occurring precipitation. The primary area is Pecos County's range lands and idle/fallow land which tends to crust and shed natural precipitation. The project will provide a means for both grassroots individuals and governmental land stewards to understand and implement real-life, economically attainable water harvesting practices or techniques in an arid lands environment." -------Jed Elrod, CEA-Ag, TX cooperative Extension-Pecos County (below)

 

 

 

Activities and Participation Results

Student Field Day activities primarily focused on stimulating creative thinking based on a hands-on approach to enhancing the effectiveness of naturally occurring precipitation via ripping" and/or "furrowing" techniques.