Wildcat Bluff Discovery Center, Amarillo Texas

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Wildcat Bluff Discovery Center

Wildcat Bluff Discovery Center

The Discovery Center Collective (DCC) is a regional Science, Tech & Innovation hub w/ a half century of service to Amarillo & the Southern High Plains. It & Ogallala Life are engaged in a collaboration to demonstrate landscape rehydration techniques at Wildcat Bluff Discovery Center (WBDC). The WBDC is 750 ac where the flat Llano meets the Canadian River breaks. It's rich in ecologic & cultural heritage, with a mandate for education in Natural Sciences & Regen Ag. LFG ;)

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Regenerative Actions Happening Now in Wildcat Bluff Discovery Center, Amarillo Texas

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Landscape rehydration    •    Wetlands function    •    Biodiversity    •    Built 80 leaky weirs for landscape rehydration along West Amarillo Creek at Wildcat Bluff. Engaged approx. 30 volunteers and educated 50.    •    A highly visible, publicly accessible demonstration site, which we hope develops into a bioregional learning center.    •    Stormwater harvest, to rehydrate proximate landscape & recharge significant volumes to the High Plains Aquifer System (outcropping Dockum)    •    Planted fruit trees near HQ    •    Cultivating demonstration sites    •    Reinforce & supplement stormwater harvest structures    •    Retention structures for erosion control    •    Stormwater harvest to rehydrate proximate landscape (increase biomass, biodiversity...) and recharge to the High Plains Aquifer System    •    Built 80 leaky weirs, a series of bunds by the windmill and then planted many hundreds of young native perennials.    •    An outdoor classroom of sorts. We've engaged with over 30 volunteers, and educated approximately 50 visitors.    •    Landscape rehydration    •    Wetlands function    •    Biodiversity Landscape rehydration    •    Wetlands function    •    Biodiversity    •    Built 80 leaky weirs for landscape rehydration along West Amarillo Creek at Wildcat Bluff. Engaged approx. 30 volunteers and educated 50.    •    A highly visible, publicly accessible demonstration site, which we hope develops into a bioregional learning center.    •    Stormwater harvest, to rehydrate proximate landscape & recharge significant volumes to the High Plains Aquifer System (outcropping Dockum)    •    Planted fruit trees near HQ    •    Cultivating demonstration sites    •    Reinforce & supplement stormwater harvest structures    •    Retention structures for erosion control    •    Stormwater harvest to rehydrate proximate landscape (increase biomass, biodiversity...) and recharge to the High Plains Aquifer System    •    Built 80 leaky weirs, a series of bunds by the windmill and then planted many hundreds of young native perennials.    •    An outdoor classroom of sorts. We've engaged with over 30 volunteers, and educated approximately 50 visitors.    •    Landscape rehydration    •    Wetlands function    •    Biodiversity
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