Brock Dolman at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC)

Craig Sponholtz, founder and president of Dryland Solutions Inc., is a watershed restoration specialist and agro-ecologist currently residing in Santa Fe, NM. He spent a decade with the U.S. Forest Service in New Mexico and Arizona working mostly in Wildland Fire Management. Craig studied Permaculture in Australia at Bill Mollison's Tagari Farm. In 2005 he received a Master of Arts degree in Agro-Ecological Restoration from Prescott College. As an undergrad Craig studied natural resource management as well as sculpture, printmaking and ceramics. His interest in the visual arts continues today and finds it's outlet in the rockwork he sculpts for stream restoration projects. He works throughout the southwest with private landowners, non-profits, tribes and government agencies. Craig has a passion for teaching and getting the word out. He leads workshops in erosion control and passive waterharvesting techniques that seek to give his students the skills and encouragement needed to go out and make a difference in their home watersheds.Dryland Solutions, Inc.

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