Site by site. The Edwards Plateau, indexed.
One property at a time. Every Site Read deposits a reading. What survives the field becomes reference.
Bexar, Comal, Kendall, Bandera, Blanco, Hays. Karst hydrology, post-oak / live-oak transition, recharge-zone politics, and the artisanal vernaculars that survived ranching.
A symbolic structure built on the recharge zone — what it required hydrologically, what it required culturally, and why the design changed three times during construction.
Bare caliche at noon: 142°F. Under native canopy fifteen feet away: 87°F. The economic case for trees, written in real measurements.
Most bioswales fail because they're built as decorations. The difference between a real swale and an aesthetic ditch is a foot of soil depth and an honest grade.
Order matters. A pool built before drainage costs three times what it would have. A list of decisions worth making before any contractor breaks ground.
The Hill Country soil that breaks shovels. A real planting protocol for ground that doesn't want to be planted in.
A 250-year-old water-sharing protocol that pre-dates the EAA. What it teaches about distribution, governance, and the moral economics of scarcity.
Invasive in ranching language, native in ecological language, food in cultural language. How to think about a tree that pre-dates the cattle who hate it.
San Marcos Springs has flowed for 11,000 years. A reading of one spring as the deepest reference for Hill Country water sense.
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