Learn about how development and the climate crisis have impacted our local water cycle, and what you can do to restore it in your own backyard through this Greenscapes Coalition presentation by Ipswich River Watershed Outreach Manager, Rachel Schneider. The ingenious water works of a riparian forest have been largely outed, not only by hard top, but also by turf grass, which doesn’t provide shade, has extremely short roots, and loses far more water to evaporation than it absorbs or filters into the ground. Turf grass may as well be a desert. According to Rachel, we need to create hydrologically functional yards.