A Division of Land Sponge LLC.
Our Mission
Our mission is to transform how people, municipalities, and industries manage water: slowing, spreading, sinking, soaking, and storing it back into the earth to recharge the springs that sustain life itself.
We champion nature-based solutions that regenerate soil health, revitalize ecosystem health, and enhance resilience for the triple bottom line; people, planet, and profit.
By focusing on groundwater replenishment, we guide communities away from degradation towards regeneration and resilience.
Our Vision
We envision a world where societies shift from a spiral of extraction and depletion to one of exponential abundance of natural resources.
By honoring ancient water-harvesting techniques and pairing them with modern science and technology, Water Ranching restores balance to nature, ensuring liberty and abundance for all.
Our vision is a future where water security, ecological health, and community prosperity are living realities shared across generations.
Who Benefits from
Water Ranching?
Landowners
Producers
Healthier more resilient land and water: Restored soils and aquifers increase long-term productivity, from restoring spring flow and grazing capacity to timber growth, and much more.
Asset protection: Reduced runoff and increased infiltration mean more abundance of water and life, less damage to infrastructure, reduced overhead and operational costs, increased biodiversity, productivity/ profitability, leading to higher property value.
Economic resilience: Every +1% soil organic matter can hold ~20,000 gallons more water per acre, lowering both drought and flood risk thus drastically reducing insurance claims and cancellations.
Municipalities
Safer communities: Green infrastructure reduces flood risk, with studies showing $1 spent saves ~$6 in avoided disaster losses.
Reduced infrastructure costs: Water slowed and absorbed by landscapes eases pressure on stormwater systems, avoiding multimillion-dollar upgrades to gray infrastructure.
Livable cities: Tree canopy, rain gardens, and green corridors cool neighborhoods, improving walkability and public health, especially in areas most impacted by heat and flooding.
Corporations & Industry
Risk management: Aquifer replenishment and green stormwater infrastructure reduce liability for corporations, data centers, solar farms, and industrial facilities, while enhancing public perception.
Sustainability leadership: Aligning with SDGs and ESG reporting builds trust with investors and communities.
Economic advantage: Nature-based designs reduce embodied carbon footprints while cutting water and cooling costs (by stacking functions, agri-voltaics can lower costs, reduce runoff, boost panel efficiency, and provide multiple yields per acre).
Society as a Whole
Public safety: Reduced flash floods prevent hundreds of deaths and billions in damages each year.
Climate resilience: Slowing and sinking water combats aquifer depletion, strengthens base-flows, and keeps rivers running through drought.
Shared prosperity: Healthier water, cooler cities, and healthier ecosystems
What Exactly is
Water Ranching?
Water Ranching turns flood risk, drought vulnerability, and erosion into groundwater recharge, fertile soils, and long-term resilience.
Instead of draining landscapes, it slows, spreads, sinks, soaks, and stores water in the earth, restoring aquifers, base-flows, and ecosystems by systematically and intentionally blending traditional indigenous watershed restoration techniques, Keyline design, biomimicry, and soil health principles with advanced hydrology and ecological economics.
Water Ranching in Rural Environments
Contour-based earthworks: Keyline planning, swales, vetiver hedgerows, and ridge-to-river-to-reef water distribution hydrate the land and prevent erosion.
Soil-centered agriculture: Adaptive grazing, perennial polycultures, and cover crops increase infiltration, reduce inputs, and build resilience against drought.
Whole-systems integration: Silvopasture, food forests, and beaver-biomimicry structures create water retention, biodiversity, and long-term income streams.
Water Ranching in Urban Environments
Green infrastructure (GI): Bio-swales, rain gardens, and permeable pavements keep billions of gallons of runoff out of storm drains, creeks and rivers.
Cooling and health: Tree canopies, green roofs, and shaded corridors reduce urban heat stress, improve air quality, and extend infrastructure lifespan.
Resilient communities: Nature-based infrastructure in vulnerable neighborhoods reduces flood risk, lowers insurance costs, and strengthens community health.
Water Ranching in Corporate & Industrial Environments
Reducing Water Footprints: Companies with large water demands (data centers, food processors, manufacturers) can offset consumption by recharging aquifers and investing in on-site infiltration systems.
Lowering Embodied Carbon: Green infrastructure and soil-based solutions reduce reliance on concrete-heavy stormwater systems, cutting embodied carbon and aligning with climate goals.
Resilience & Risk Management: Water Ranching mitigates flood risk, prevents costly downtime from storm damage, and ensures long-term access to water resources.
Meeting ESG & SDG Goals: By integrating nature-based solutions, corporations demonstrate measurable progress on sustainability metrics, earning social license to operate and attracting impact-driven investment.
Stacking Functions & Benefits: Agro-voltaic systems and regenerative landscaping reduce cooling loads, improve biodiversity, and enhance worker environments, while delivering a positive ROI.
Why Our Approach Works
Holistic Assessment
Begin with a whole-watershed perspective, from ridgelines to river mouths, integrating rural and urban hydrology.
Evaluate ecological, social, and economic liabilities and assets ,drought vulnerability, erosion, runoff, and infrastructure risks.
Incorporate both ancient techniques (Keyline Design, beaver biomimicry, traditional terraces) and modern science (GIS, climate modeling, hydrological surveys).
Tailored Strategies
Design site-specific plans aligned with landowner goals, municipal needs, or industry benchmarks.
Apply scalable interventions, from small urban curb cuts and bio-swales to watershed-scale aquifer recharge systems.
Create strategies that align with the triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit.
Nature-based Solutions
Prioritize slowing, spreading, sinking, soaking, and storing water into soils instead of channeling it away.
Employ techniques like vetiver hedgerows, one-rock check dams, keyline plowing, agroforestry, and regenerative grazing.
Enhance ecosystem services: groundwater recharge, carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery, and cleaner waterways.
Expertise/
Networking
Leverage decades of leadership across both public and private sectors.
Connect clients with a global community of practitioner knowledge and professional resources.
Facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration, helping municipalities, corporations, and communities unlock funding, partnerships, and policy alignment.
Proven Results
Thousands of acres regenerated through conservation easements, aquifer recharge projects, and ecological restoration partnerships across North America.
Nationally recognized expertise with awards from the EPA, FEMA, and the U.S. Air Force, affirming our ability to transform liabilities into assets at scale.
Proven financial stewardship, with experience managing a $28 million federal watershed restoration budget and guiding multi-agency investments.
Billions in potential savings by reducing flood damages, avoiding crop losses, and lowering long-term infrastructure costs through nature-based solutions.
Trusted by landowners, municipalities, and industry alike, delivering results that strengthen ecosystems, communities, and long-term economic resilience.