RE: 🌋 Landslides, Kitty Cats, & Nothing Else 🐈‍⬛

I have been pounding scrap wood into the hillside a little higher up, and it has helped to stop and/or slow down the slides. All wood too close to the river is always lost, so the best idea we have is to have an excavator push boulders to our side of the bank during the dry season. It's a bit of a triple problem, our land doesn't have enough rocks in it like the forest because our property is mostly backfill. The landslide area is also located on the outside bend of the river, and to make things worse, last year's flood created a chokepoint in the river just after this turn, about three truck sized boulders impeding water flow. It makes a beautiful rapid to look at, but also causes more flow to be directed away from the main channel during flooding.

We're gonna try with a lot of bamboo this year, and although the roots really aren't strong enough, they drink a lot of water and create a canopy quickly. I suspect a portion of the problem comes from the rain directly hitting the hillside, and a bamboo canopy would allow the rain to reach the ground more gently.