Insights

An Operations and Management (O&M) plan for each site should be developed during the planning and design phase. Approval to implement an O&M Plan in perpetuity should be requested as part of the ConCom submission.

Invasive species and occasionally water control elements need to be managed in perpetuity. A long term management and operations (M&O) should be...

September 25, 2026

In most projects there are opportunities to pause and correct course. In team settings, we don't always take advantage of those opportunities. Why is that?

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September 25, 2026 2 comments

How is photo monitoring being used by our community and our partners?

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At Living Observatory we recognize the value of photographs for tracking change at restoration sites and communicating outcomes of projects. We want...

April 28, 2026

Posting an insight as a question can spark dialog

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An insight, does not always need to framed as a statement. Posting an insight in the form of a question may spark a dialogue that leads to greater...

April 22, 2026 2 comments

Minimizing the transport of excavated sand lowers construction costs.

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March 4, 2026 7 comments

Effective land management depends on understanding capacities, building trust, and aligning diverse resources toward shared goals

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Insights from a conversation with Mark Kasprzyk. Effective land management often depends less on building networks and more on leveraging existing...

January 28, 2026

If It’s New to You, It’s Worth Sharing

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An insight doesn’t have to be groundbreaking to be valuable—it just has to be new to you. If you’ve learned something, chances are someone else in...

June 17, 2025

Insights are most valuable to the team if they have persistence, can be recalled, reviewed, and applied to a similar next situation

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Alex Hackman observes: [We] need a tool/place to record insights that can be reviewed by different folks into the future In the latest update to...

May 20, 2025

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