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Humans have done a lot to change the course rivers, but it wouldn't take too much to change these rivers back into health ecosystems.
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This is cool, back in 2006-7, I took a class in Landscaping with Native Plants, and then had a paid internship doing exactly what is described here. We planted hundreds of Native trees and shrubs along 5 East Tennessee waterways, usually within parks, where the entire Native flora had been removed. Today, most of those plants we place are thriving, giving wildlife a second chance, and helping preserve the local ecosystems.
Awesome! Hopefully more initiatives like this get implemented
can u goes and make a recording of how much it has improved? got a link to the organization that did it? would love to see a before and after if possible!
For sure a before and after would help with reccomending this tactic.
The thumbnail is no ordinary river system. Its a guy dabbing in the nude. :)
Whats the organization name?
In Brazilian Portuguese, the technical term for those buffer forests is "mata ciliar", which means "eyelash forest", because they protect the river like eyelashes protect our eyes.
Interesting term.
That's a very cute way to say it
Good name for it!
Here in Quebec City, we used to have a river here that used to be like that, a around 10 years back they ripped the concrete everywhere and created a natural like environment around it and a buffer, its helping a lot to restore the river's quality. Turned it into a linear park for people to visit it, great spot now. Used to be a stinky ditch full of pollution.
Linear parked out areas are kind of cool because they can connect areas while adding beauty, cooling, wind protection, etc. When you add soothing water it is that much better...
Quel est le nom de la rivière!?😮
@@ecogeilsnw Saint Charles. Quand vous allez voir de quoi elle a l'air, dites vous qu'il y a 15 ans, c'était un mur de béton beige délavé un peu en pente de chaque côtés.
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For the rest of you Henri Cant asked for the name of Quebec city's river
@@shorgoth Merci beaucoup!! And thank you for the translation haha
I work with an environmental consulting company doing just this. I love that restoring native plant communities to protect river systems is becoming so much more widespread. The rivers need it!
I am now imagining the concrete-addicted generations of civil engineers from the early and mid 20th century just griping in their retirements/afterlives at all us youngsters screwing up their perfect plans.
Doing this in California is especially important as it helps keep the water colder. Salmon need cold water to thrive, and they are a keystone species.
Even imagining the LA river with huge riparian buffers is such a great piece of imagery. I hope they can make it happen!
I'm loving these plant focused videos! Please consider doing one on permaculture and regenerative agriculture!
I second that!!
@@kristyknopf4843 Third!
yes please!
Yessss
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We just spend over 60k this past fortnight planting a native buffer along the stream that runs through our dairy farm. It's been so cool. And there has been a digger here the past few days sorting out sediment traps at both the entrance and exit on the farm aswell as in the middle so that ducks have a place to rest and any sedinemt can drop down keeping the water clear.
What a wonderful and costly change. If you are dairy farming, I hope you are following Greg Judy and Understanding Ag channel on YT so you can improve your land without excess input cost.
Thank you for making this choice. Taking care of the environment takes effort, but it's most definitely worth it
Here in Solingen, Germany it always seemed strange to me how every little stream in every little valley in the city has its own little path of forest around it, now it seems pretty logical. Also it's pretty awesome to just walk a few meters from the next big street and basically stand in a little nature reserve where you don't even notice just a few meters up the hill you got a whole city again.
Is it safe in those areas? In the US, nature reserves near cities are packed with homeless, drug addicts and migrants. I don't go near them.
@@The_Savage_Wombat Going in a place near a city that doesn't remind you that you're still near a city probably means that he's talking about a safe space.
@@The_Savage_Wombat Germany is very safe in general. I lived in the US and was constantly shocked how close luxury and poverty were.
We do have crime, drug addicts and poverty, but no where near of anything Americans find normal.
I kayak a lot, and it's incredible how small an amount of trees surrounding a small river/steam can block out the view and the noise of what is just a stones throw away. Like really, sometimes you could swear you were miles away from civilization.
As an environmental biologist I want to say thank you. For my entire career I have been trying to do my best in educating the importance of a riparian zone, I will continue to do so, but am super appreciative that you published this.
Thank you kind biologist for the work you do!
Habitat restoration and rehabilitation of rivers is so crucial, to us too. People forget we're animals too, if we destroy our own habitat we make it harder for humans to live too.
No joke, when I did my internship in college back in 2012, I did a lot of work helping to map out where riperian buffers might be able to go (I did my internship at a watershed advocacy organization). So these things have a special place in my heart.
It also prevents rivers drying up. Having the land saturated because it under tree cover means the river doesnt leach into the surrounding land. And the leaf litter feeds insects which feed fish, keeping their populations healthy.
You know, you see these kinds of buffers almost everywhere but you never actually think about how beneficial they are!
@@DismantleHAARP I'd suggest JK is correct.
I have been letting my backyard fill with native plants to create a pollinators garden. We are not right next to the water, but there is a large marsh and river system near by. The native flowers are having a big effect on the marsh and there are more plants and birds here than before
Concretes actually make the flooding worse. No place for the water to get absorbed to the ground. Natural river deltas with sufficient plants to act as sponge likely to better control flood. Rivers tend to have numerous dry parallel channels to direct flood water. Ox bow lakes and such. Combined with beavers digging channels and deepening the bottoms, pre-human rivers must have hold much more water.
Just like beaver dams can be very good for water storage and aquifer restoration, if they can be prevented from damming culverts and under-bridge spaces that end up applying excess pressure against road beds. That can lead to roads washing out.
Beaver ponds become habitats for a LOT of wildlife. from insects to fish, to birds and large mammals who need water and eat the kinds of plants that grow in wetlands (or eat the plant eaters).
In this case it didn't because every part of the LA River was controlled and dammed up
@@morewi To truly control a river you would have to control the weather, 3D groundwater structure, and surface water flow patterns all the way up the river. The only alternative is to massively increase the capacity, overflow capacity, flow speed, and absorbance of the riverbed and its direct surroundings. Capacity and overflow capacity are binary switches: If they are overwhelmed upriver, they will ruin everything downriver unabated. Absorbance is an entirely different beast and works very well with low flowspeeds. You want to build this mainly into your overflow capacity. Perfection would be a slowly winding river with wide bends that are allowed to flood regularly (ex. seasonally). In these wide bends you want to remove any and all structures and hard surfaces: You want sand, dirt, mud, and gravel here. Anything that lets the soil absorb water. This way, when you have a flood, each bend will sap the strength out of the flood.
Too many times you see societies straighten out rivers, which increases flow speed. Then they build too close to the river, the increased flowspeed pulls at the side of the river, undermining their buildings, so they harden the sides. This effectively sets the absorbance and overflow capacity to zero. So now you have a fast moving river with low capacity, zero overflow capacity, which cannot reduce the power of a flood. Narrowing, straightening, and hardening a river is like building glass houses in earthquake country, or straw houses on a volcano.
@@bramvanduijn8086 listen before they damed it and filled it concrete the river flooded, now it doesn't and looks like sewer drainage. I think they did it pretty well
Fantastic job summarizing river restoration and riparian buffers! Thanks Hank! This is literally what I studied in school. I think I'll just show people this video when they ask me what ecosystem restoration is all about or what I studied.
One of the oddest experiences I ever had was in central California. The riverbed was concrete. In my area, we don’t have concrete rivers (or rivers at all really). Walking into the river was so odd because you could only feel the abrasive mess of the concrete instead of the soft and malleable dirt of most natural rivers.
Lmao. Where I come from its all rocks and gravel riverbed with the occasional sand bar sprinkled in. Still better than cement.
Be careful, you might step on some glass or needles...
I grew up with a riparian buffer on my farm as a kid. Loved playing in those woods by the creek. Just never knew that was the proper term for it.
I was wondering when you guys would cover this on sci show. I found out about this when I ran into some people while backing that do this by buying out land from farmers in Oregon. This is a really cool project and I am so glad you brought attention to this!
I hope more and more people start getting things like this. it doesn't have to even be "green" plants or trees. it could be arid plants, dry shrubs, etc.
edit: also, first comment, woo!
As long as the plants are native to the region and fit for the local environment, then they can be the right plants.
Here in New England that would be very different stuff from along the LA river.
Don’t forget about erosion control too! The roots of the plants help hold the soil and sediment along the river to lessen the amount of erosion that occurs.
Willow trees are just amazing at this job, at least in more northern countries. They might have a huge detriment that i do not know of. But for just absorbing human made pollutants and helping clean what goes into rivers, they are pretty great. They grow fast, and provide fair wind shelter. So you do not get so much wind erosion. Boy do i like them. :P
Yes! The Boise River Park system is a great example of how beneficial this is to everyone
Yeah, more Hazel Nuts means more Nutella. I am down for this.
You'd love Mark Shepard and Restoration Agriculture. *More nut trees,* fruit trees and veggie trees, as well as vines and perennials, while building good soils, and producing more food overall while using diverse, plants. This provides us with healthier food with zero synthetic chemicals.
I’ve come to realize my whole belief system is based around the idea that biodiversity is important. That’s my new religion: Biodiversity.
That is a good belief system. It even works as a diet guideline: Eat more varied. There are not a lot of diet problems you can't solve by eating more varied.
Invasive species like us tend to have a big negative effect on biodiversity to the point where they even destroy the environment they themselves need in the long run. Recognizing that and trying to fix it, is a good thing. It's not a religion, though.
@@eljanrimsa5843 religion (broadly speaking) is guidelines on how to live based on specific morals. Granted it was kinda meant to be a joke, but the idea that we as humans need to be severely cognizant of our impact on biodiversity is a way of living. Diet, lifestyle, family planning, and how we treat other living beings. All these things can be guided through the lens of maintaining biodiversity.
As an aspiring restoration ecologist, this video was really fun and interesting to watch!
the san antonio river is a great example of an ecosystem restoration project that both improved habitat quality and continued to prevent massive flooding in the area! the whole project is called the san antonio river improvements project, and it was one of the largest (if not the largest) urban river restorations in the usa. it’s been so awesome to see the return of so many native species now that their habitat has been restored!
You missed their biggest benefit. They prevent EROSION. The root systems of the trees in the buffer hold the soil together.
Great video! The Yellowstone wolves helped to rehabilitate the riparian buffer in Yellowstone Nat'l. Park.
Short-Long Explanation: Wolves scared deer congregating at the water, so the new trees and shubs could grow again, so small mammals had more coverage and returned, so larger predators had more food. The berries provided more food for other animals, great and small, like bears. The beavers now had more vegetation to build their dams, and the ponds created more opportunities for other life...and stopped/slowed the meandering of the river.
When I was in university studying recreation and leisure, I had to take an outdoor recreation course. The study we read showed that when the conservationists re-introducer a certain animal back into the forested area, I believe it was a fox or wolf, any things became better in that areas ecosystem. The river in the area flowed more like it did in the past, the actual course or the river changed, and the wildlife became more in balance.
It was probably about wolves reintroduction to Yellowstone. Has made a huge difference by controlling elk and the changes continue to this day.
In the early 2010s, Columbus, Ohio removed a lot of the low-head dams and channelization of the Scioto River in the downtown area. A buffer was created on either side of the river; the east bank becoming a park called "the Scioto Mile" with walking paths, and west bank providing a lush, broad lawn for the city's science museum, COSI, that looks towards the downtown core with the state supreme court building one of the prominent landmarks. It's been a part of riparian restoration efforts in the city, especially along the two main rivers (the Olentangy being the other), that date back to at least the mid 1990s. And the city is always looking to improve further on these efforts.
plants: we're bringing rivers back YEAH
I used to hike around the forests in Northern California when I was a child in the 60's and 70's. There was dense brush everywhere and all of it dripping with moisture condensate. Now I see they have cleared out all the dense brush to prevent fires but everything is hot, bare and dry without it. Plants keep recycling the water among themselves like sponges.
I don't think they are getting it right.
Forest rangers keep 5t hampering without a real clue. They though Natives liked to burn everything, at least that's their excuse...
Problem is we keep trying different solutions without doing the research before hand, so you end up with introduced species that devastate what they were supposed to protect, introduced plants that take over everything, etc. All this took billions of years to get in balance, and humans just can't get that right yet...
Buffers in ecosystems are often neglected as we fail to pin point their clear use, and videos like this surely shed light on how systems are protected by buffers and ensuring enough space in between systems for buffers to do their job. Thank you Sci show for your dedication to enlightenment !
This is probably the first time I've heard the word "riparian" since Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced bouquet!) invited her friends to a waterside supper with riparian entertainment.
Glad I'm not the only one who remembers that show or that episode.
I always wondered how long she spent scouring that dictionary to come up with that exact word.
In most cases (with some exceptions, of course) the first 10-15m from the water's edge aren't worth cultivating anyway, because ground surface irregularities make mechanized agricultural work impractically slow and may even damage expansive equipment. And there's another benefit of letting a tree line grow in such areas: it slows down the wind near ground level, keeping more snow piled up on the field during winter and reducing surface erosion during spring and early summer when cultivated plants are still too small to anchor the plowed/softened top soil. In my area farmers are planting tree lines alongside small streams and ditches as well for this reason, in the long run benefits outweigh the cumulative loss of a few hectares that were most difficult to cultivate anyway.
@Vladimir Efimov, this is starting to sound a lot like the concept of "bocage" is coming back. That was having lots of trees and hedges between roads and fields and streams in France. A lot of those hedge were torn out in the '50s and '60s for more intensive agriculture -- the wet, temperate microclimate dried up a lot.
@@fredericapanon207 Same here in Romania, though we call them something like "tree curtains" (best guess English translation). Recently people started testing other old agricultural concepts as well, some proving remarkably effective and profitable, especially in the fast growing "bio" farming industry.
Ignore the scammers trying to separate you from your money
I chuckled when the BBC Earth project name "Our Green Planet" came on the screen. Hank and John Green taking over the world!!!
Next time I'm at a river, I will admire it's riparian buffer
When Aotearoa New Zealand changed over a lot of grazing land from sheep to cows (because milk exports make more money), nitrogen runoff from larger cow pats polluted many rivers in the country. Efforts like these are needed to get the rivers back to health, but I’m not sure how much has actually been done.
The problem isn't cows, but overgrazing. Sheep are shiver animals and mich more likely to keep moving in that environment, cows less so...
@@b_uppy Yeah sheep are gentler on n the erosion front, but it’s not the cows per se, it’s that their poops are larger individual units that need more management of the land. All of which is totally possible, it just needs to be done. I have friends who have cows on their farm and they put in the necessary barriers, and have happy cows and a clean stream.
And yet the farmers are always claiming they care as much as we do about the rivers. No, they don't. I think the NZ government needs to restore the Queen's Chain - forced purchase and rewilding, or mandatory restoration of all land x metres around a river, y metres around a stream, z metres around a lake. Unfortunately it won't do everything because the nitrates are sinking down through the ground to the water table, but it's a start.
Next step would be strict legal limits on the type and density of livestock you can farm in certain areas. The dry Canterbury plains were never suitable for dairy, and the amount of water being used to make it green enough is disgusting.
@@iriandia Moa farming would be better.
@@The_Savage_Wombat Well, unless you want to Jurassic Park that situation, seems a little unlikely.
Watching river restoration and dam removal videos on YT is a balm to this weary soul
I'm lucky enough to have a stream running through one side of my garden, which already came with a nicely established riparian zone.
Over the years, I have been improving and extending this zone further into my garden, which is a project of soil rebuilding, rewilding with permaculture.
* For anyone who wants to rebuild exhausted and thin soils naturally (which is great for carbon capture) without incurring the dangers of importing non-local soil into the area, do look into incorporating fungi species as a great way to speed the process along.
Once I managed to establish just a couple of fungi species (not that easy, as they can be a bit slow and fussy to begin with if you have extremely thin soil), the process of soil recovery and building becomes much easier.
It's been my experience that some fungi species appear to work in close union with others for even better results.
For instance, I managed to get Birch Bolete to settle in the garden, and this then allowed the quick establishment of Fly Agaric. The quality of the soil in this area improved at once. Now these 2 are firm friends, it's my belief their presence will make it easier to introduce other species of Boletes, which are excellent as a food resource for my family and for feeding various wildlife (red squirrels like to pick the caps and dry them out high in tree branches for their winter larder).
A tree which I favour most for growing alongside my stream (and planning to plant along the riverside further down the valley) is Hazel.
Being smaller and not very compact, it doesn't crowd out too much light, allowing a ground level layer of plants to grow underneath.
It produces valuable food for wildlife and humans alike (I take the harvest from lower branches and the wildlife help themselves to everything above arm's reach). I'm planning to make plant milk, cream, ice cream and biscuit flour from the 7 litres of hazelnut kernels I collected this Autumn.
Hazels can be coppiced to keep them young and vigorous, the removed branches good for kindling, making activated charcoal for soil building, and for making rustic fencing to protect more delicate trees.
I will stack excess cut thin stuff in heaps so that animals can hibernate in safety (toads just love places like this, but I'm sure others make good use of them too).
So awesome they are making more rivers to help ecosystems again~°•°•
I have no idea why anyone would want that footage of them spraying out in the wild. Even the air induction nozzles we use for fungicide don't fog like that. And the track lines have me foxed as well.
Thanks for the video with the decent sponsor. Please no more carbon offset scams.
Normal river: Plant buffer
Riven Ganges: Sh*t buffer
This channel is totally awesome and so is Hank! 😃💖
@@DismantleHAARP Be specific rather than being a troll.
@@DismantleHAARP you should really go see a doctor. Your comments and videos point to mental illness
We have a plant buffer around most of the “runs” or creeks in Baltimore.
Something worth noting is that many of these riparian corridors occur naturally along rivers. However, humans modify its surroundings or change the natural flow to a concrete flow, effectively damaging or removing the riparian vegetation entirely.
Once again, a reminder that if humans could leave nature alone, things would be just fine haha
I'm glad people are talking about these issues!
Vermejo Park Ranch, west of Raton, New Mexico, USA, is doing some wonderful rewilding of its river, by building exclosures for a few years to allow native plants to reestablish and mature.
What a lovely little positive thought for the first video of the day 😊.
This video leaves a lot to be desired regarding river impacts. Synthetic chemical inputs, monocultures, bare earth/dead plants can all adversely impact rivers, and other water tables.
We need to employ practices that restore topsoil, and enhance rivers and aquifer recharge. Through better choices we can produce more food overall, better quality and more diverse foods for better health and food security.
Avoiding = negative impact?
@@HweolRidda
Whoops. Sorry. I corrected it.
Important to keep it simple when trying to spread the word about an effective strategy.
@@mikemhz
Only to a point. Too simple can create bad/false impressions.
Remember the recriminations Trump faced when he said to Fauci to 'look into disinfection'? Fauci acknowledged what Trump meant but many people went nutty with presumptions. Some were afraid that his followers were going to mix up some deadly concoctions. Pelosi thought he must have meant 'drink bleach.' Believe she even said it on two differentoccasions. People like Pelosi and the media that can really do a disservice with simplifying to the point that an idea with potential can be utterly scoffed.
As an aside hopefully they are looking into using light for disinfection as the vaccines have difficulty protecting certain areas and disinfection may help lessen COVID impacts in the nasal cavity, etc.
I agree that it was a bit simple, but it would have been hours long if they were to properly cover the subject.
That was well done, informative and entertaining without being pushy or insulting my intelligence. I rarely sit all the way through any video but I did this one Thank you
Most of the rivers and streams here in Kansas are surrounded by woodlands. Not due to any gardening efforts, but because you can't farm slopes and flood areas. Although contrary to popular belief, there's actually more forests around here now than two hundred years ago because it was all open plains when the Americans got here and they planted trees.
Thank you for the knowledge.
Sci show is the best thing that ever happened to youtube.
PERMACULTURE WORKS.
I think we need more of these to save the planet
The Green River foliage has also allowed for the easier movement of serial killers in the Pudget Sound area.
In a couple weeks I'm actually gonna be helping with one of these. We are going to be planting trees along the banks of the elkhead creek in moffat county to help with erosion of the banks and to help keep the water cooler.
this literally bumps up my hope in humanity/biosphere among all the worsening news of climate/nuclear risks
Excellent and important message!!!
Whoever approved the N2O shown at 3:05 needs to come to the office more...
In some cases there is an undo button, albeit an expensive one. In Florida, the Kissimmee River was turned into a canal for flood control. This had a lot of negative consequences on Lake Okeechobee and other places downstream, particularly due to agricultural runoff. The Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District, which originally built the canal, are now undoing most of it, restoring the original channel (which in many cases had been left in place) and pushing the levees (which are simply the spoil from digging the canal piled on either side) back into the enormous ditch from which it came a few decades ago.
I live right next to the green river! I used to float down it in an inner tube in the summer
I'm working hard on my IL farm to get rid of invasive plants and plant native. I'm adding lots of grass areas and border strips. The problem is all the fields are tiled. Therefore, the chemicals don't go through the buffer zones. The tiled field usually ends near a water source. Much of mine goes into a stream that goes into my pond that flows to a river. I fight algae endlessly in my pond. My farmer wants more tile. It's often too wet in spots during planting season. Hopefully, in the long run we continue to add more native ways that are a win/win.
Go Go Sci Show
Taking land away from people's farmland is often a difficult sell. But in many parts of Europe that is being solved by installing bicycle highways along these riparian areas. On a bicycle path like that you will only ever encounter a car at a crossing, but never on the road itself. Allowing for vastly more safe and comfortable cycling.
Plus you are cycling through a beautiful piece of nature!
I’m really glad that we as a species are finally realizing that nature isn’t something to be enslaved, but so,etching to be respected and worked with in an equal partnership
Well the "conquest of nature" attitude was brought over by Europeans from various countries there. Most native peoples and first nations people who lived on the north and south American continents already knew that you can't control nature, you just have to work with it.
The English, Spanish, German and French to name a few who came over here didn't see prosperous people living without disruption of natural ecosystems, they saw people who ignorantly let valuable natural resources to remain unexploited and vast swaths of land allowed to grow wild and untouched when they could have developed the land as the Europeans did, into cities and plantations and centers of unlimited economic growth.
Heck the whole "lost city" trope is rooted in the idea that the native peoples of an area could not have made this abandoned structure(s) that was stumbled on, so it must have been some sort of other, unknown race of people who are long since died out.
And only now, centuries later are we rediscovering that nature must be respected and looked after because we are not as disconnected as we like to imagine. We are a part of the earth as much as your hand is part of you.
And how many times did animals in nature eat their own babies?
I get that technology shouldn't rule but neither should nature.
I really like this solution
They call it a plant buffer, I call it Mother Nature laying on her side.
It would be great to have an interview or some collaboration with David Attenborough in the channel.
Nah. I don't want him publically blaming everything on overpopulation yet again. It sends the wrong message.
3:06 That's also a funny gas.
The forestry industry has been implementing this for decades.
Love this kind of informative video
Love the shirt!
Missed opportunity to say, "bigger buffers bring better benefits, baybeeee!"
Thanks for sharing this knowledge
The evidence continues to mount that our urban constructed environments are not good for anyone, human, plant, or animal. That, and trees are awesome.
Nice microcosmos merch 👀
Great job environmentalist. 🤩🥳
Beavers!! bring back the beavers!!!
I've always loved this story of the 1938 New England hurricane. Shortly before the unexpected storm hit, people noticed a LOT of beavers were out in the creeks reinforcing their dams. They stayed on top of their dams during the blow to make repairs as needed. Consequently there was much less damage in those areas than expected. I think this was in Westchester County, NY.
So planting trees has a ripple effect down the stream through the entire ecosystem? Is that called Trickle-down-ecology ?
Not to mention aesthetic improvements. The L.A. "River" is an ugly example of the mentality that concrete looks "cleaner". Which maybe it did back when it was new. But now it looks grungy. Many cities around the world have found that urban life can be improved by restoring the buffers around waterways and mixing in some walking/cycling trails.
Nature is surprising in how fast it will move back in when we let it. Remedial works on almost any scale makes a big difference. Life, uh, finds a way of course.
Not everything humans do harms ecosystems. Artificial lakes, for instance, allow for new larger ecosystems of fish, waterfowl, and woods in the surrounding areas.
What do you think was in the place where the artificial lake is now? Usually a forest or meadow. Do you see a lot of deer underwater? Many trees? No? Could we maybe call that harm to the former ecosystem?
@@bramvanduijn8086 Who cares? There's actually more woods where I live than there was when the place was settled, and we know this because we have 19th century photos that show empty hills for miles. Now that's all farms and small forests.
The buffalo are gone, though. Replaced with the domesticated cow and domesticated buffalo.
Best video ever! Thanks.
Here in Germany, they have an unfortunate tendency to - I exaggerate a little - protect every industrial accident and preserve things that are at the wrong place. Meadows are nice, but rivers need trees. I hope these fools, who protect every meadow whereever it is, listen more to you than to experts here.
New most of this already but the particular adaptation is interesting.
Fantastic clip!
really nice video !
that's a fun shirt, hank
Excellent video😊👍
They should apply permaculture ideas with Riparian buffers to make the land and water useful for both nature and men.
One of the key permaculture concepts is to be considerate of the context. You can't just plop down an permaculture farm anywhere, you have to be considerate of nature's needs.
Thank you
Ironic timing, I just took a photo of a river in the town I grew up in where they reworked it to be more natural and its starting to look amazing.
I mean, it's a couple of miles of a small river in a Chicago suburb, so it's not going to do A LOT for the environment, but it's cool they're doing it anyway.
Monsanto , create a problem while knowing you have the the solution to that problem
Inspiring! Thank you
“And they also and release nitrous oxide, which is…”
“Fun?”
“A greenhouse gas.”
“No, yes, science time…”
Cool. Thank you