The installation of thousands of rock detention structures in the Turkey Pen Watershed, of the Chiricahua Mountains in SE Arizona, provided a 30-year case study to consider low tech and low-cost Natural Infrastructure in dryland watersheds.
YOUTUBE c2tYI7jUdU0 Published Jun 15, 2022.
Natural infrastructure in dryland streams can establish regenerative wetland sinks that reverse desertification and strengthen climate resilience. usgs 
The rainfall-runoff response of a watershed is a complex and complicated process that is governed by large number of known and unknown physiographic factors, that vary both in space and time. Results reported in these case studies are snapshots in time at this location, using limited available inputs, with large uncertainty and potential error. usgs
