Todd Bridges

Some “nature” thoughts about the relationship of longevity to sustainability while visiting Bryce Canyon National Park today (What a spectacular place!).

Interesting weather today in the deserts of SE California and SW Nevada. A reminder that flash flooding is a threat here even during a mega drought.

Sampling some extreme heat today in Death Valley.

Big Sur is beautiful!!!

I was keen to see for myself after reading McPhee. There are trips in my future to Old River Control and Iceland. :)

You know you’re an infrastructure geek when you spend your afternoon traveling through Los Angeles County visiting debris flows, debris basins, detention reservoirs, and dams—for fun! 😂

Spent a wonderful day with colleagues from the Santa Clara Pueblo and USACE Albuquerque District on our Engineering With Nature collaboration in Santa Clara Canyon and Creek (Las Conchas Fire, 2011). Nature will help us rebalance the system!

My Engineering With Nature On the Road travel blog about visiting the Merritt Island / Cape Canaveral Complex: “The Dune Protecting Artemis.” ewn.erdc.dren.mil/?p=8639

My last post on this book (probably). In reflecting on the life of Powell, who successfully led the expedition in 1869 that navigated the Colorado River from its confluence with the Green River through the Grand Canyon, who mapped much of the West, and l…lnkd.in/eGm5ZgxW

Spent 2 days at Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center, and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge to explore Engineering With Nature for resilience with some great people from Space Force, NASA, and USFWS. What opportunities!

“His vision of contented farmers controlling their own timber, grass, and water clear to the drainage divides, and settling their problems by an extension of the town meeting, is touched with a prophetic, perhaps a pathetic, piety. Science and Reason have…lnkd.in/emTAxzpj

Being in nature rejuvenates, clarifies, inspires.

“Bridges” and Dams A thought occurred to me this morning while walking in a Georgia Piedmont forest…

“Powell did not impose his view of the West, either his facts or his deductions or his policies, upon a glad and unresisting nation. The powers of darkness ultimately descended on him like disturbed yellow jackets.”

Stegner writes of John Wesley Powell: “His homemade education fitted him to grasp the obvious and state it without embarrassment—he had not been educated into scholarly caution and that squidlike tendency to retreat, squirting ink, which sophisticated learning often displays.”

People need beautiful spaces! The State Botanical Garden of Georgia. lnkd.in/gufEJE65

We need revolutionary change in engineering! Here is a great example of a nature-based solution in the form of a large-scale, distributed intervention using rock detention dams: usgs.gov/media/videos/r…. #engineeringwithnature @network4ewn

The White Dam on the Oconee River in Georgia was built around 1900 for hydropower. It was removed in 2018 for many reasons. What constitutes sustainable hydropower? @network4ewn @USACEHQ @ArmyERDC @UGA_IRIS #engineeringwithnature