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s of the water crisis for that result.So far,only the largest,most level ` "where it's most fragile, a rock garden and the Ogallala aquifer and easily accessible lots are cultivated;the rare plants. e than a decade sooner balance of the land is maintained using soil- "It's a couple of acres, and we're not • building practices and kept under green ma- holding our own,but losing ground up there. 'gr, ..rater under the nure crops or native ground-cover. Twenty-one years from now it will just be e watered a fifth of Labor is mostly provided by volunteers, bare ground and rock.There will be no flow- but we pumped water working under paid managers in exchange ers,just from human impact. ;r than the recharge rate. for food. Not everyone who works for the "I'm not optimistic.Although a lot of en- riculture shifted to high Land Bank is hungry,though.It's a vironmentally conscious people go up there, to Willamette Valley. great learning experience for if each person takes just a few steps off trail, )f winter rain here. high school students.And vol- that damages it.There is vandalism.High en- tate devises a po- • _,G , unteering for the Land Bank ergy people take shortcuts.We need to reach tchment system '' ,. has become, like park main- every person to educate them on the cumula- o pay for it,the ,, tenance, a popular occupa- tive impacts of anyone just having a frolic,of soaring,and it's `I ' • tion for the retired. It is also everyone who has a dog up there.If each per-_ I landscape use, ;