My internship focuses on restoring Desert Fan-Palm Oases.  Apparently, no one has come up with a set way on how to restore desert habitat.  There is a lot of collaboration and research into finding techniques to use, to restore this habitat.  My favorite method by far is using the Groasis Waterboxx.

Here is a link to show you more about Groasis Waterboxxes, http://www.groasis.com/page/uk/index.php

They are designed by Pieter Hoff who works for AquaPro.  I have used these Waterboxxes to establish seeds of our target species in hard to grow places.  However, because I work in the desert, when you place things like this out there, wildlife tends to use them as habitat.  While monitoring these Waterboxxes, I ran across this little guy in one of our dead Waterboxxes.  (Shown in the picture below)  This is a Desert Banded Gecko, with its tail re-growing.  That is why its tail looks so weird!

This is so cool, I thought living in the desert would mean not seeing this much wildlife, but I totally underestimated the desert.  I thought geckos were needed more water than they could find in the desert.  Obviously I was wrong.

Anyways, restoring desert habitat is definitely a learning process, so if anyone has any ideas feel free to comment and let me know!  These Waterboxxes are in the process of being tested by the project I am working on as well as by many other people.  I really hope the plants that we have planted in them survive throughout the summer!