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Today is #WorldNatureConservationDay!
We feel very blessed to work in the midst of some of the the most beautiful desert lands and mountain meadows on the planet, and prioritize #preservation and #conservation on every single project we touch.
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#worldnatureconservationday
#desertconservation
#mojavedesert
#greatbasindesert
#sonorandesert
#sierranevadameadows
#soiltech
#naturerestored
#balancingconstructionwithnature
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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#thursdaythoughts
#lovewhatyoudo
#watershedrestoration
#truckeemeadows
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#balancingconstructionwithnature
Happy Friday Friends! #tgif 😎
Hope you enjoy today’s #nativeplant feature.
🌵Native Plant Feature Friday: Mojave Yucca 🌵
Also called the “Spanish dagger,” this shrub or small tree has a few upright branches and long, skinny leaves from 2-4 feet long and 1/2-1 inches wide. The trunk is grayish brown and approximately 6-12 inches in diameter.
In springtime, the Yucca will bloom purple-ish white bell-shaped flowers between 1-2 inches long. The Yucca will also grow fruit, a dull black berry containing small seeds, in late summer. The Yucca species thrive in rocky desert slopes and desert flats below 7,000 feet elevation, making the Las Vegas area its perfect home.
Here are a few fun facts:
✅ Mojave Yucca grow up to 15 feet tall
✅ They are often confused with the Joshua Tree, which is a different type of Yucca
✅ Yucca has the lowest ignition temperature of any other wood, making it useful as a fire-starter
✅ They are reliant on the Yucca moth for pollination
The Yucca is native to the Mojave and Sonoran deserts and play a big role in our revegetation practices. Revegetation includes delicate uprooting, storing in temporary nurseries, re-planting and maintaining until well-established and thriving. Not only does this practice help preserve the native species, it allows the disturbed land to be restored to its natural element, ensuring preservation of the desert ecosystem.
Visit our link in bio to learn more about our revegetation practices.
#revegetation
#nativeplants
#mojaveyucca
#yucca
#mojavedesert
#desertconseravtion
#soiltech
#balancingconstructionwithnature
As #drought conditions persist in the Southwest, restrictions are being placed on the use of #grass for decorative, non-functional purposes.
Last month, Nevada's Gov. Sisolak signed into law Assembly Bill 356, requiring all non-functional decorative grass to be removed by the year 2026. More than 5,000 acres of turf has already been identified, and the @southernnevadawaterauthority has created rebate programs to encourage a quick transition to water-smart landscaping.
The use of #nativeplants and vegetation will save Nevada almost 10 billion gallons of #water annually, which is almost 10% of our entire water supply. This is big first step in the right direction to combat our water problems.
Click the link in bio to read more.
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#waterconservation
#nativevegetation
#nevativeplants
#Nevada
#drought
#water
“Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.”
– Robert Kiposaki
The most powerful thing we can provide our customers is a solution to their problem and peace of mind. Through successfully tackling obstacles as they arise, we always search for opportunities to provide even better services to our clients.
#problemsolving
#problems
#opportunities
#peaceofmind
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#balancingconstructionwithnature
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." -Harry S. Truman
Wishing everyone a wonderful 4th of July weekend!
-Your friends at Soil-Tech
#america
#4thofjuly
#harrytruman
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Happy Friday Everyone!
Nature is calling 🌻… Enjoy your weekend 😎!
📸AVSR Project, Antelope Valley, California
#mojavedesert
#desertconservation
#hydroseeding
#nativeplants
#seeding
#nature
#tgif
#soiltech
#balancingconstructionwithnature
Our Reno team has been busy on this golf bunker repair, helping The Links @squawalpine get ready to open for the season.
Check out that gorgeous sky!
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#golf
#laketahoe
#squawalpine
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#balancingconstructionwithnature
Water is critical to wildlife in the Nevada desert, especially to desert bighorn sheep.
The year of 2020 brought abnormally dry conditions, even for Nevada, with no rain between the months of April and October. When the @nevadawildlife Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) had noticed a severe depletion of water in all of the 22 water guzzlers in the mountains, they were immediately concerned about the direct threat to wildlife and an emergency water haul plan was developed.
The NDOW reached out to Soil-Tech to help deliver water via our water trucks to filling stations, and then via helicopter to the guzzlers in the mountain ranges.
The project began in early October in a two-stage process. First the water guzzlers were filled to the baseline water amount and finally each guzzler was topped off with water. This emergency project used 126.1 hours of helicopter flight time in order to deliver an estimated 112,000 gallons of water in just 13 days.
Nevada is the king of wild sheep and the efforts of all government and nonprofit groups on this project highlight the dedication to conserving these amazing animals. We were grateful to be a part of this project and foresee this happening again as dry conditions persist.
Special thanks to the @fraternityofthedesertbighorn who are dedicated to the welfare and conservation of Desert Bighorn and Nevada’s wildlife.
#bighornsheep
#animalconservation
#desertconservation
#guzzlers
#soiltech
#balancingconstructionwithnature
🌵The Cholla Cactus 🌵
Cholla cactus are found in all of the Southwest deserts, with different species having adapted to different locale and elevation ranges with several species occurring around Las Vegas.
Sometimes referred to as "jumping Cholla," most cholla have orange or greenish-yellow flowers and bloom April through June, depending on local conditions. Stems and joints vary in width, length, shape, and color, as well as in the profusion of spines and glochids. Chollas may appear as ground creepers, shrubs or trees, varying in height from less than a foot (club or devil cholla) to as much as 15 feet (chain-fruit cholla).
Here are a few fun facts about the Cholla:
🌵Does the cholla actually jump? No. Although sometimes referred to as "jumping cholla"… the barbed spines don't actually jump. But they DO detach easily from the main plant and hook tenaciously — sometimes painfully — into people who get too close. Keep a few feet away at all times, especially children and pets.
🌵No, the spines are not poisonous. However, some cactus spines can be dangerous (for example cholla or hairlike spines), if they get deep into tissues, and might cause bruising, bleeding and even dying tissues.
🌵Cholla is an important part of the desert ecology, providing nesting birds protection from snakes, coyotes and other predators.
🌵Since this species usually makes no viable seed, it relies on detached segments to form new plants by rooting and growing.
The cholla is one of many desert cactus included in our revegetation suite for native, sustainable landscape on projects.
To learn more visit our link in bio.
#chollacactus
#jumpingcholla
#desertconservation
#revegetation
#nativeplants
#mojavedesert
#greatbasindesert
#soiltech
#balancingconstructionwithnature
Not a bad place to call work….
Great way to start the week 🌱☀️🙌🏻
#mondaymotivation
#natureisbeautiful
#truckeemeadows
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Today is #EndangedSpeciesDay!
The desert tortoise is the largest reptile living in the Mojave Desert. Commonly found in the Mojave and Colorado/Sonoran deserts of California, southern Nevada, Arizona, southwestern Utah, and in Mexico, they have existed on earth for MILLIONS of years.
✨Here are some interesting facts✨
🐢The tortoises can survive ground temperatures exceeding 140 degrees Fahrenheit and are known to live as long as 60 to 80 years.
🐢Much of the tortoise’s water intake comes from moisture in the grasses and wildflowers, which is then stored in the bladder of the tortoise allowing it to live off of this reservoir for many months.
🐢95% percent of the life of a desert tortoise is spent in the ground escaping the heat in a burrow or den. During hibernation their heart rate, respiration rate, and all bodily processes are slowed down.
The desert tortoise was listed as “Threatened” in an emergency action by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in the early 1990s, and is under constant threat by predators, drought, fire, and human activities such as shootings, collisions with cars, off-road vehicles, disease from introduced domestic tortoises, and overgrazing. However, habitat loss is one of the biggest threats facing the desert tortoise today. Habitat degradation from invasive grasses, and habitat fragmentation from roads also pose a threat.
Habitat protection is a core segment of our restoration solutions, and the protection of the desert tortoise is involved in many of our projects in the Southwest desert. We take this role very seriously and are grateful to play a part in the protection of such a great species.
#habitatprotection
#deserttortoise
#desertconservation
#endangeredspeciesday
#balancingconstructionwithnature
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