This Is How California Is Spending Billions To Solve It's Geography Problem!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ต.ค. 2023
- California has a geography problems it's home to one of the largest estuary and inland river delta in the western Americas, located in Northern California's San Francisco bay area, the region is part of the Mediterranean climate zone characteristic of California's coast, it has mild to cool winters with occasional rainfall, and warm to hot, dry summers.
It is home to a complex network of watersheds, marshes, rivers, creeks, reservoirs, and bays that predominantly drain into the San Francisco Bay and Pacific Ocean. The total area of the Delta, including both land and water, is over 2800 km2 or nearly 700,000 acres
In its natural state, the Delta was a large freshwater marsh, consisting of many shallow channels and sloughs surrounding low islands of peat and tule.
The Delta's waterways are comprised of fresh water, but the waterways depths are controlled by tidal action from the Pacific Ocean. It has approximately two high tides and two low tides every day.
Historically it was home to about 20 000 native Americans of the Maidu and Miwok tribes who lived in villages, on the eastern edge of the Delta, where the land was higher and less susceptible to flooding.
The Delta is home to a diverse array of wildlife and represents one of California's most important ecological habitats.
The delta supports a number of endangered species and provides key ecosystem services such as filtering pollutants and sediments from the rivers. while recharging the aquifers.
Many endangered species of birds are found here like the California least tern, the California clapper rail, the snowy egret, and the black crowned night heron.
Millions of migrating shorebirds annually take refuge in the delta which is considered the most important component of the Pacific Flyway for countless migrating birds
The Pacific Flyway is a major north-south flyway route for migratory birds in the Americas, which extends from Alaska to Patagonia in Chile and Argentina.
It is also home to significant sea mammals like sea lions, Bottlenose dolphins and harbor porpoises
and is an important stage on the migration routes of grey whales, blue whales and the highly endangered humpback whales.
The delta historically supported a diversity of salmon species like chinook and coho salmon, as well as steelhead trout. which have all seen a significant decline due to habitat loss, which has had an alarming effect on whale and Orca numbers which rely on salmon as one of their key food sources.
Today we are in the in the San Francisco Bay area to see a massive 30 000 acre transformation, costing over $300 million dollars and 2 decades in the making, this huge project is one of the worlds largest ever implemented!
Several Million Cubic Yards of Earth has been moved in a first-of-its-kind, 20 year experiment to restore 17,000 acres of flood planes, 3500 acres of wetlands and 377 acres of forests on former farm land and land set for development in the Californian Delta.
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This is so beautiful! I hope humanity continues to do this across our whole world!! There's a lot of desert land that could be thriving.
Thank you California for inspiring project. There are so many places destroyed by man. Back to nature will be our next trend to fight climate change.
Exactly
Now we're talking 🌱
Great to see the USA finally getting something right❤🇬🇧
We're restoring the Everglades in Florida too.
Good direction we are moving in; also thumbs up to dam removals as well
Excellent!
I'm excited for the L.A. restoration project.
Thank you for making these videos!! It's so nice with a channel bringing positive news for a change
Our pleasure!
Every home and business should install a rain water collection and storage system along with solar panels.
Even in areas where rain is infrequent it is crazy to waste the little rain that does fall and waste it.
We need to stop planting green lawns and switch to local native plantings around homes.
It is crazy to plant lawns and build golf courses in dry desert areas. We waste too much water and electricity.
We have laws in the UK that prevent rain water storage, albeit not particularly enforced, but then again hardly any laws in the UK these days are enforced. Current Govt keeps winning elections by offering tax cuts every election. We might be better off for having a few quid in our pockets to buy some beers and fags with, but law and order, health and social services... increasingly non existent.
Annoys me that non native plants are still planted on public land. Yeah your average joe may be ignorant or gaf but local government contracts professionals to do the landscaping, they could atleast have more in mind than aesthetics but u know whats aesthetic? A healthy native ecosystem😌
Research 'Primary Water'. We have infinite water if our overlords would allow it to be used. They keep it a secret so as to take our water rights and then sell it back to us. Don't be fooled by the propaganda.
The nature is just so much more cleaver than we
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Nice video. I think its a good thing these projects are happening as long as its a balanced approach. Allowing at least a small area to go back to its natural state is a good thing. Time will tell if these types of projects actually are beneficial. Living my whole life in CA and knowing its history I am aware of many of the issues. You did a good job on explaining some of the them. 👍
Im so glad I came to check your videos on your page! kee the good work up, it is such an oasis of wholesomeness here. Cheers!
I think this is one of your most beautiful videos!
Fantastic job.
You might be interested in the Baltimore Aquariums Harbor Wetland project which was just announced. To restore a small area of salt marsh in Baltimore's inner harbor
Doing this type of project is much more effective to improve the environment than carbon taxes or idiotic net zero goals.
So inspiring 🎉🎉🎉
Finally money used on something practical instead of being laundered
Amazing how much the world improves once you stop treating it like an exploitable garbage can
Good job wll USA ❤
Awesome
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Cool, but so hard to watch with the constant short-cuts.
TH-cam has implemented a state of the art technology since 2005 called the "pause button". I encourage you to use it.
You show your age
Just like me
F ing popping around , trying to understand what your seeing
Let's tell all the documentaries to stop telling a story and pop all over
amazing ....really
Finally some goverments are starting to understand
Great to see but World's Largest Restoration Project? Have you heard of the Loess plateau?
@5:58 what is that roadway called? That’d be a nightmare for me to drive over! Too close to the water for my liking!
Good video but the audio is very muffled and hard to understand.
wetland is perfect for rice farming
Omg my ears hurt at the way Dutch Slough was mangled! It’s pronounced “sloo” not slau 🤦♀️
Too little too late, but on the other hand, humans may turn it around. We just need to understand that we are all intertwined and dependent on a health environment...
Of course there will be a negative Nancy complaining...
You mean “too little too late”
please don' say "urban" we know its the endless suburbs that are the real problem not high density urban spaces
Surburburban and urban have literally the same word, and cities have their own issues cities, high density isn't always good either, also they spread out into sprawl too. Living spread out is not the problem is you live local and in harmony with nature
@@LeafofLifeWorld Living spread out is the problem. Sorry but how can you not be educated on this?
well no opwrry about green deelo this is nice solution instad opf glue itself on highway dumbases XD
Great way to spend our tax money.
I agree
By far The best way to spend tax! About time we reversed all the damage caused by past generations
Cheap for a lot of flood protection
Agree. Way better than weapons of mass destruction.
Yes (non-sarcastically)
California needs to manage their woodlands, that's the only way that they can ever reduce their wildfires.
Marsh habitats serve as natural fire breaks. They are a key component of fire management.
More water = less fire and less fire spread.
You got this from trump huh.
You think they need to be our their raking their forest or what lol.
They do manage their woodlands, wtf are you on about?
@@pauldickman4379 LOL......CA's (and the US) piss poor management of its forests was known well before Trump. Logging companies took good care of their forests to prevent huge fires to save their investment. The hippies came along in the 1970's and CA (and other States) kicked the logging companies out. The hippies also pushed the belief "that the forest will take care of itself if you don't touch them". That made it almost impossible to cut down trees to thin the forest and the Forest Service stopped their "slash and burn" policies which gathered up fuel from the forest floor to burn it. All this because of hippy "let the forest take care of itself". Well, 40+ years of debris piling up, trees overpopulating to the point of making them fight each other for limited water allowing disease to spread in weakened trees and coupled with putting out all fires totally destroyed what nature normally does. Guess what, HUGE fires are completely natural and the way nature takes care of the forest. By not cleaning the forest, thinning trees and not letting them burn normal/naturally created fires that are very intense and allows "crowning" because of all the fuel and dead/weakened trees allowed in forests. All of this was known before Trump but CA's law and policies prevented good forest management. CA is now changing its law/policies back to thinning/clearing the forest with limited logging. BTW...if you don't know HUGE fires are normal and natural. They have always happened well before the policy of putting out all fires started by the Forest Service in the late 1800's. Its not global warming that creates these fires either, huge fires are normal and natural. Just like the huge fires in Canada last year were normal and natural.
U.S. wildfires acres burned per year is down 90% over the past century. This includes the western U.S. It is a surprising statistic for the people who get their information from news sources and not scientific data. :)
300,000,000 $ for a 30,000ac!!!!
that's 10k for an acre!!!
hugely inefficient... I mean how many times we should do this again to only go back to 1800 pre-industry??!
and when nature already had done it and can redo it in over a much much much larger scale and in a better way than us absolutely for free! why Man have to flat everything he comes across? also using so much machinery and gas etc plus all that soil disturbance for over 20 years are quite disturbing, we should be able to do better, why not use that money to protect existing estuarys and forests, or regenerative agriculture practice? stop the destructive ways of doing things and encourage people to live in harmony with nature...? i hope its to see better use of energy for the return out of it next time
thank you leaf of life for covering this outrageous projects ,hmph! i think the reason for this one is mostly because of city politics for preventing water supply issues and pleasing environmental tendency in people, see how much we pay for "green earth" ?! now back to party !
Are Eco policies taking food off of local tables?
Is the restored area going to feed families and improve local economic futures?
Hope it actually works.
It's not all about putting food on the table for humans. We are not the center of everything. It's about time we serve other species after all the destruction we have caused.
It was instead of housing and the equivalent of one large farm
No, these projects & policies are not keeping food from being delivered to family tables, nor negatively impacting local economies. Flooding is a big issue in the delta, so it’s an overall benefit.
Plus, SO MUCH of California’s agricultural land has switched from feeding local tables to selling almonds to China and whatnot.
Nor-Cal is now covered in almond trees & somewhat in Pistachios. Also grapes for wine. Nothing to do with local food production.
And there’s still plenty of land the corporate ag companies can find to devote to those crops while depleting the water tables for their own pockets, not to feed Californians.
I’ve lived in Northern California my whole live (1961-now), & it’s been hard seeing so much depletion for so little societal good.
Our fish populations are kaput. We need these projects.
Enhancing local fisheries and shellfish beds is putting food on the table
what a waste of land....coulda had a dollar general there
Heh.
$300,000,000. What a waste. Could have done less for less and ended up with similar results. Could have used some of that money to chop down trees around power lines or cleared brush. Could have saved damage from wildfires. Big government, big projects and big waste.
Create energy from source. No need for power lines then, right. Restoration is so vital, it's also priceless.
Have a go telling the truth you are bragging
All the information is from the project website.
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