Project Name: Santa Clara Landscape Parkway - Part of the Southwest NM Community Forestry Network Action Plans
Client: Integrated Biological Solutions
Location: Santa Clara, NM
Year: 2025

In partnership with the Southwest Community Forestry Network (SWCFN), Anthropopulus developed designs for landscape parkways along Fort Bayard Road in Santa Clara, NM. Due to a shallow gas line, the typical green stormwater infrastructure installation of curb cuts and swales wasn’t feasible in this location. The team applied Kenton Seth and Paul Sprigg’s concept of a crevice garden to the parkways. Crevice gardens mimic the environment of rocky outcroppings by placing flagstone vertically on its side, and filling the spaces in between with a sandy soil, creating small cracks and basins for water to collect and plants to thrive. Community members and SWCFN volunteers installed the crevice gardens in the summer of 2025.

Learn more about the SouthWest NM Community Forestry Network Project and view the completed plans HERE.